[A K KARTIK <akkartik@mailcity.com>] libc/1158: glibc: segmentation fault within malloc

[Wolfram Gloger]

> Could anybody with c++ knowledge look into the appended bug report and
> tell us what's wrong?  I get the same error with glibc 2.1.1.

No C++ knowledge necessary :-)... Just wasted 10 minutes on this..

> 	actnode = (node*) malloc (total_size * sizeof (actnode)) ;

What's wrong with this line ?

Hint: sizeof (type*) != sizeof (type).

Can someone write a Perl script to detect suspicious lines like this?

Morale: always use operator new in C++, it was designed with good
reason.

Regards,
Wolfram.
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