Andreas Schwab:
> |> Don't ask me. I have noticed more than once that "I forgot to initialize
> |> malloc()ed data structures" segfaults go away when I run programs under
> |> gdb.
>
> Perhaps the size of the environment has changed, which could result in a
> slightly different malloc pattern, but other than that the debugger does
> not effect the program, since it still runs as a separate process.
>
Nope; the problem also surfaced when attaching gdb after startup.
I'm as baffled as everybody else as to why this could possibly happen.
I'll try and whip up a test program which exhibits the problem.
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