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From: David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com>
To: Nathan Ingersoll <ningerso@d.umn.edu>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Malloc bug?
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 17:37:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200007182137.RAA28182@mal-ach.watson.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Nathan Ingersoll <ningerso@d.umn.edu> of "Tue, 18 Jul 2000 16:30:27 CDT." <Pine.SO4.4.02.10007181627250.11229-100000@ub.d.umn.edu>


>>>>> 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

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  reply	other threads:[~2000-07-18 21:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-07-18 20:40 Malloc bug? Nathan Ingersoll
2000-07-18 20:54 ` Paul Schinder
2000-07-18 21:30   ` Nathan Ingersoll
2000-07-18 21:37     ` David Edelsohn [this message]
2000-07-19  2:01       ` Sean Chitwood
2000-07-18 22:37     ` David A. Gatwood
2000-07-18 22:03 ` David A. Gatwood
2000-07-19 16:30   ` William Blew
2000-07-19 17:19     ` Paul Schinder
2000-07-19 23:06       ` David A. Gatwood
2000-07-19 18:28     ` Nathan Ingersoll
2000-07-19 23:03     ` David A. Gatwood
2000-07-19  2:51 ` Hollis Blanchard

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