[Sheflug - Sheffield Linux User's Group] Re: Segfaults & ld.so wierditude

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> "Bob" == Bob Ham <u9rah [at] dcs.shef.ac.uk> writes:

    Bob> Anyway, that problem solved, and another one reared it ugly
    Bob> head again.  It's a different program, but the code is part
    Bob> of the same project.  The problem is in malloc().

Sounds to me like you've got a bogus pointer somewhere that's
overwriting malloc's private data.

Are all pointers initialized?  No casts of chars to char* or anything
like that?

Have you tried Electric Fence and cousins?

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