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

[Bob Ham <nospam [at] dcs.shef.ac.uk>]

On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> >>>>> "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.

It's that malloc() itself segfaults, as in in the backtrace I get
strdup(), malloc(), malloc() right at the top.

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

Like I say, it's not my instruction that's segfaulting.


> Have you tried Electric Fence and cousins?

Never heard of it; care to expand on that?

Cheers,

Bob


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