Re: This has got me stumped

From: George (greerga@DRAGON.HAM.MUOHIO.EDU)
Date: 11/09/97


On Fri, 7 Nov 1997, Chris Powell wrote:

>This has caused about 10 crashes so far and I have no clue why.
>Any questions, email me. Thanks for any help.
>Chris
>
>Core was generated by `bin/circle -q 4000'.
>Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
>Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libcrypt.so.1...done.
>Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.1...done.
>#0  0x80bced5 in __libc_free ()

You have a memory problem in some (likely elsewhere) place.  The problem
manifests itself with many crashes in __libc_free.  I'd review recent code
changes to look for overruns in the buffers.

PS - I don't even get a stack trace when I __libc_free die :)

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http://www.van.ml.org/~greerga | is not thus handicapped. -- Elbert Hubbard


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