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- From: danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop)
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- Subject: Re: malloc() problem
- Date: 27 Feb 96 21:51:24 GMT
- Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
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- In <31332992.41C6@mashie.ece.jhu.edu> Chenyang Xu <chenyang@mashie.ece.jhu.edu> writes:
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- > Recently I have been haunted by the core dump inside malloc() on SGI
- >Indigo2 IRIX5.2, I know the problem is caused by my program not the
- >malloc(). But I couldn't find the bug? Does any C expert has identified
- >the common reasons for malloc to core dump?
-
- Yes. They can be easily found in the FAQ (mandatory reading before
- posting).
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- >Your help will probably help me to find the bug.
-
- ElectricFence (freely available at an FTP server near you) will find the
- bug for you (assuming you know how to analyze a coredump with a debugger).
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- If you have access to Purify, it won't hurt, either :-)
-
- Dan
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- Dan Pop
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