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Re: malloc patch for 2.2.4
- To: Wolfram Gloger <Wolfram dot Gloger at dent dot med dot uni-muenchen dot de>
- Subject: Re: malloc patch for 2.2.4
- From: Christian Iseli <chris at ludwig-alpha dot unil dot ch>
- Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 09:40:30 +0200
- cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
Wolfram.Gloger@dent.med.uni-muenchen.de said:
> Please use MALLOC_CHECK_=1 and set a breakpoint on the first free()
> which is detecting an invalid pointer. Voila, you've got the chunk
> that was overrun by the application.
Thanks for your help. After much time trying to have a good test data set and
some time with Electric Fence, I'm now pretty sure the bug is in the
application source code.
Sorry for the noise.
Regards,
Christian