The valgrind reports error when printing allocated strings

Question

The code is here:

#include 
#include 
#include 

int main()
{
    char* buf = malloc(3);
    strcpy(buf, \"hi\         


        

Answer 1

I've run it in my own machine, and I get no errors:

==61755== Memcheck, a memory error detector
==61755== Copyright (C) 2002-2009, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
==61755== Using Valgrind-3.5.0 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
==61755== Command: ./a.out
==61755==
hi
==61755==
==61755== HEAP SUMMARY:
==61755==     in use at exit: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==61755==   total heap usage: 1 allocs, 1 frees, 3 bytes allocated
==61755==
==61755== All heap blocks were freed -- no leaks are possible
==61755==
==61755== For counts of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -v
==61755== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 6 from 6)