Is it failing while allocating or while trying to use the allocated memory ?? Because if it fails it is supposed to return NULL, The kind of error usually signifies the heap corruption(from the man of malloc), can u tell us wht is the value of MALLOC_CHECK_ environment variable value, please set it to 1 and run the program again.. -Vamsi -----Original Message----- From: linux-c-programming-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-c-programming-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of B S Srinidhi Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 3:59 PM To: linux-c-programming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: amd64 :: SIGABRT in malloc() Hi, I'm new to this list, but I've searched the archives (a little bit) to find a solution to my problem and haven't found anything. I've an application running on an amd64 machine. This app crashes while allocating memory of size 300: suffix = malloc(sizeof(char) * 300); When run under GDB, I get the following bt: *** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption: 0x00000000005343f0 *** Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted. 0x0000002a96214de0 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) where #0 0x0000002a96214de0 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x0000002a96216290 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6 #2 0x0000002a9624b06e in __fsetlocking () from /lib/libc.so.6 #3 0x0000002a962518fa in free () from /lib/libc.so.6 #4 0x0000002a96252d4b in malloc () from /lib/libc.so.6 <snipped> Any ideas as to why this could be happening? How can I debug this problem? And why is malloc() calling free()? Any help or pointers would be of great help. Srinidhi. -- ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) B S Srinidhi - against HTML email X http://srinidhi.deeproot.co.in & vCards / \ DeepRoot Linux - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-c-programming" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-c-programming" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
