NH> Now, after I've used the variables in various (nefarious) ways,
NH> I need to free them.  However, if I go

JB>  NH> free(pbar1->next->charvar);

JB> if it doesn't throw the assertion if you free them immediately after
JB> initialising them the eror must lie in the nefarious code.

JB> Also you should check that each malloc succeeds.

It turned out that I was malloc(ing) strlen(foo) instead of 
strlen(foo)+1.  What really troubles me is why an assert was thrown when 
I attempted to free() the first node of the linked list.

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