Re: gerbv crashes (was Re: gEDA-user: gerbv 1.0 on RH8)

[Mario Klebsch <mario@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hi!

Am 02.02.2005 um 04:40 schrieb primorec:

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> [igor@nemo morgan]$ gdb gerbv
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> (gdb) r
> Starting program: /usr/local/bin/gerbv
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> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x403b338d in calloc () from /lib/libc.so.6
> (gdb) where
> #0  0x403b338d in calloc () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #1  0x403b4098 in free () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #2  0x401d2da3 in g_free () from /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0
...

Looks like you need to check out efence (Electric Fence), a 
malloc()/free() debugger, of this problem. The program will still 
segfault, but with some luck the debugger will shot the real location 
of the error.

73, Mario
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