stumped....
Gerald Carter
gcarter at valinux.com
Mon Jul 17 07:55:16 GMT 2000
Urban Widmark wrote:
>
> On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Gerald Carter wrote:
>
> > Has anyone every seen a call to malloc() result in a
> > seg fault? Very confused...
>
> Yes, a few times. It has always been some code
> overwriting innocent memory, possibly free'ing the
> same area twice. It has never been related
> to the place of the segfault (which obviously
> is where you start looking ...). The malloc
> crashes because its internal structure is corrupt.
Ahhh...now that rings a bell. I think I know
what it is.
> You may want to try some memory "safety"
> library (ElectricFence is the only name I can think of
> now, but I have never tried it).
>
> But I'm sure there are other ways to get malloc to
> crash, maybe you invented a new one :)
I would feel so honored if that were true ;-)
Thanks,
jerry
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