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Re: glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer
[Bruce Korb]
> Though Petter R. will (eventually) find the cause of his problem via
> valgrind,
I assume you mean Sripathi Kodi when you write Petter R. above.
> This message is awful. It needs to be enhanced with a hint about
> which component of glibc stumbled on the issue so your customers can
> more readily narrow the focus of their search. This is the correct
> list for that.
Improving the message is probably a good idea, yes. Perhaps something
like this is better:
*** free(): Called with invalid pointer 0xb7f9fb78 ***
It could make it more obvious that the problem is the argument to
free() and thus not related to glibc at all.