On 5/12/06, wwp <subscript@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello Shriramana, On Fri, 12 May 2006 13:41:12 +0530 "Shriramana Sharma" <samjnaa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > One of my programs, which was working quite well till now, suddenly > gives me the error: > > *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (top): 0x0808a338 *** > Aborted > > It is a pure C program compiled with GCC 4.02 -- I do not understand > why it does not work suddenly. Please tell me what the above error can > be. Would be nice to run it from gdb, in order to get the backtrace when it crashes. This should help you understand where and why :).
Additionally, you can try valgrind, which reports typical programming errors like calling free() twice on the same object. \Steve - : 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