From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: B S Srinidhi Subject: Re: amd64 :: SIGABRT in malloc() Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 16:22:27 +0530 Message-ID: <1142506349.4517.33.camel@avirat> References: <1142504931.4517.26.camel@avirat> <44194021.3050200@bitdefender.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <44194021.3050200@bitdefender.com> Sender: linux-c-programming-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org Hi, Thanks alot for the quick reply. :) On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 12:38 +0200, Mihai Dontu wrote: > Since you managed to get a stack trace (thus using a program > that malloc()-s on its own) you can conclude there is nothing > wrong with malloc(). But there might be a heap corruption in > your program. Depends on what your program was doing before > this. Even I thought so, but this program has stopped working after a recent (a couple of months back) update of libc6. So was wondering if that could have caused this problem. I had no issues running this same program in the older libc (sorry I don't remember the version of the older libc). The current version of libc is: 2.3.6-3. Srinidhi. -- ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) B S Srinidhi - against HTML email X http://srinidhi.deeproot.co.in & vCards / \ DeepRoot Linux