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From: "james-lists" <james@stev.org>
To: 'Shriramana Sharma' <samjnaa@gmail.com>,
	linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: "double free or corruption" - how to solve this?
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 13:01:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <002201c675bb$ce3aec20$0500ac0a@slider> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <75062f40605120111s2d27c8c0gb768c50b1ae34588@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,


Try linking your program with electric fence. It may already be installed it
comes on most distros now. Add -lefence when linking. It should help you pin
point the problem very quickly when used with a debugger like gdb.

	James

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-c-programming-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-c-
> programming-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Shriramana Sharma
> Sent: 12 May 2006 09:11
> To: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: "double free or corruption" - how to solve this?
> 
> 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.
> 
> Thanks.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-05-12 12:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-12  8:11 "double free or corruption" - how to solve this? Shriramana Sharma
2006-05-12  8:19 ` wwp
2006-05-12  8:45   ` Steve Graegert
2006-05-12 21:06     ` Nate Jenkins
2006-05-12 21:35       ` Steve Graegert
2006-05-12 21:46         ` Nate Jenkins
2006-05-12 12:01 ` james-lists [this message]
2006-05-12 21:53 ` Steve Graegert
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-05-12 20:40 AW: " Jedenastik, Günther
2006-05-12 22:18 ` Steve Graegert

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