Re: XForms: segmentation fault

Orn E. Hansen (hanseno@usa.net)
Fri, 27 Mar 1998 00:22:45 +0100 (CET)

# To subscribers of the xforms list from "Orn E. Hansen" <hanseno@usa.net> :

=DEann 26-Mar-98 skrifar Ian Leonard:
>=20
> Indeed. Calls to malloc () are a similar source of trouble. If malloc()=
is=20
> being used, a malloc debugger can be of great help. There are a few aro=
und.
> I think there's a Gnu one and one called ElectricFence (I think). I use
> one I have had for years called dbmalloc.
>=20
The GNU library has builtin malloc() check routines, and they also have
hooks that can be used to create your own. These are called...

__free_hook
__malloc_hook
__realloc_hook

And are defined in <malloc.h>

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