glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 03:27:21PM +0530, Sripathi Kodi wrote:
> I am seeing the following message when I run a multi-threaded testcase. 
> 
> *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0xb7f9fb78 ***
> 
> I recompiled glibc to make it abort when it hits this message. From the core file, I see the following backtrace:


This is most likely because your program have an error in it.  In that
case, this is the wrong list to discuss the debugging of it.

I suggest using valgrind, <URL:http://valgrind.org/> to try to
pinpoint the error in your program.

Friendly,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen