Malloc bug?

[Sean Chitwood]

I've seen this before while trying to debug mozilla. Once I loaded the glibc symbols it stopped breaking, so I'd set a breakpt @ main() then load the symbols.

	Sean

On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, David Edelsohn wrote:

>
> >>>>> Nathan Ingersoll writes:
>
> Nathan> On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Paul Schinder wrote:
>
> >> At 3:40 PM -0500 7/18/00, Nathan Ingersoll wrote:
> >> >I've been working on a GTK program for a while now, and I've been
> >> >experiencing segfaults within malloc. I was under the impression that
> >> >malloc should always return successfully (at least that's what the man
> >> >page says).
>
> Nathan> Right, but it's not returning at all. It's segfaulting inside the malloc
> Nathan> function before it returns anything.
>
> 	Sounds more like something is overwriting one of malloc's internal
> data areas or possibly hitting some weird ulimit symptom.
>
> David
>
>
>

	Sean aka Darkmane
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