Random failures when calling free()/malloc()

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Sun Jul 13 19:20:00 GMT 2003


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Martin Schlemmer wrote:

> Maybe.  The machine however does build a full system from scratch,
> pass a 24hour memtest86 burning, and like I did point out, it works fine
> if I revert glibc to 2003-05-29.

I never suggested hardware failures.  And the older glibc can very well
produce a different memory layout which causes a memory corruption to be
not noticable.

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