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From: "Steve Graegert" <graegerts@gmail.com>
To: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: "double free or corruption" - how to solve this?
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 10:45:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6a00c8d50605120145r3319e9c6hdb15c3630aeffadd@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060512101927.136dd5df@localhost.localdomain>

On 5/12/06, wwp <subscript@free.fr> wrote:
> 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

  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-12  8:45 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 [this message]
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
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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