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Date: 18 Sep 1997 23:41 EDT
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Cc: gram@cdsec.com, phk@critter.freebsd.dk, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
From: "Andrew Atrens" <atrens@nortel.ca>
Subject: Re: Bug in malloc/free
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Hi Folks,

By coincidence I *may* have seen a bug similar to Graham's last night...
I'm using 3.0 current ( circa. Aug 08 ).

I built `ddd-2.1.1.tar.gz', found in /pub/FreeBSD/distfiles which is a
largely C++ interface for gdb and others. Unfortunately, when I tried to
run it, it gobbled memory until it choked. I tried a second time, this
time killing it with CTRL-C and observed:

^Cddd in malloc(): warning: recursive call.
Virtual memory exceeded in `new'

After reading Graham's thread I relinked it against libgnumalloc, and low
and behold it works like a charm !

Does this point to an incompatibility problem between phkmalloc and g++
compiled code ?

Just a thought,

Andrew.