Re: "double free or corruption" - how to solve this?

["Nate Jenkins" <nate@uniwest.com>]

>> Hello Shriramana,
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 12 May 2006 13:41:12 +0530 "Shriramana Sharma" 
>> <samjnaa@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > One of my programs, which was working quite well till now, suddenly
>> > gives me the error:
>> >
>> > *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (top): 0x0808a338 ***
>> > Aborted
>> >
>> > It is a pure C program compiled with GCC 4.02 -- I do not understand
>> > why it does not work suddenly. Please tell me what the above error can
>> > be.
>>
>> Would be nice to run it from gdb, in order to get the backtrace when it
>> crashes. This should help you understand where and why :).
>
> Additionally, you can try valgrind, which reports typical programming
> errors like calling free() twice on the same object.
>
> \Steve
> -

Steve,

I just saw that utility the other day.  It looks interesting.  How do you 
typically use it?  or grindcall-grindval?  Do you know of a good tutorial 
you could point me/us to?

TIA,

N8â„¢


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