* David Z Maze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > and you'll generally get a segfault where the program actually messes > up, rather than when the symptoms are seen later. There's a cost in > both memory and runtime, but using LD_PRELOAD inside gdb makes this a > lot less permanent.
The thing that I find strangest is that the dying apps haven't changed recently... (gdb) run Starting program: /home/ibroadfo/tmp/gaim-0.70/src/gaim [New Thread 16384 (LWP 25567)] Electric Fence 2.1 Copyright (C) 1987-1998 Bruce Perens. ElectricFence Aborting: free(1): address not from malloc(). Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction. [Switching to Thread 16384 (LWP 25567)] 0x40702641 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) (gdb) run Starting program: /home/ibroadfo/tmp/liferea-0.4.3/src/liferea [New Thread 16384 (LWP 27561)] Electric Fence 2.1 Copyright (C) 1987-1998 Bruce Perens. ElectricFence Aborting: free(1): address not from malloc(). Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction. [Switching to Thread 16384 (LWP 27561)] 0x406cd641 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) iain -- "If sharing a thing in no way diminishes it, it is not rightly owned if it is not shared." -- St. Augustine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]