Re: Linux 2.1.125 doesn't dump core on SIGSEGV

C S Hendrix (shendrix@escape.widomaker.com)
Wed, 28 Oct 1998 23:08:42 -0500


In message <vyz7lxkermc.fsf@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de>, Andreas Schwab writes:

> "Matthias Urlichs" <smurf@noris.de> writes:
>
> |> gdb tends to change the way malloc()ed memory is laid out
>
> Huh? How that?

Not sure exactly, but lot's of pointer goofs go away when you run
under gdb. I used to have a program that did that stored but can't
find it at the moment.

Its probably much the same as why printf() calls can make pointer
problems go away.

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