What's the problem with this code? It crashes every time. One time it's a failed assertion "_ASSERTE(_CrtIsValidHeapPointer(pUserData));", other times it is just a "heap corrpuption" error. Changing the buffer size affects this issue in some strange ways - sometimes it crashes on the "realloc", and other times on the "free". I have debugged this code many times, and there is nothing abnormal regarding the pointers. char buf[2000]; char *data = (char*)malloc(sizeof(buf)); unsigned int size = sizeof(buf); for (unsigned int i = 0; i < 5; ++i) { char *ptr = data + size; size += sizeof(buf); char *tmp = (char*)realloc(data, size); if (!tmp) { std::cout << "Oh no.."; break; } data = tmp; memcpy(ptr, buf, sizeof(buf)); } free(data); Thanks!