Libc6 malloc bites?

[Sam Couter]

jeremy at itassist.net.au <jeremy at itassist.net.au> wrote:
> 
> OK, cool.  Can you tell me how I could check to see if malloc is being
> passed a bad pointer?

Try using NJAMD or ElectricFence or dmalloc or another one of the million
and one malloc debugging libraries available. They can tell you if malloc()
or free() are being passed dodgy pointers, as well as other useful
information.
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