Definitely a bug. Of course, realBase should actually be freed. I've coded a more complete fix and committed it to -devel as v1.14. At 12:52 PM 12/21/98 GMT, bob@linux.lu wrote: >Full_Name: Bob Pepin >Version: 1.1 >OS: suse linux >URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/search.c.diff >Submission from: (NULL) (158.64.28.10) > > >free()d variable which wasn't assigned yet... > > >