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Re: pilot-link and debugers
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: pilot-link and debugers
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 11:43:27 -0500
- Cc: fenneckeeprog at caramail dot com
- References: <983446105012936@caramail.com>
- Reply-To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 10:28:25AM +0000, Fennec Keeprog wrote:
>I would like to know if anyone ever tried to compile pilot- link with
>cygwin? I've tried and it seems to work well (with few warnings ...)
>in fact it works well and i can acces files and do other things ...
>but on some functions (like saving things to files) it make a
>segmentation fault. I found with gdb that it was on a simple
>free(thing) but...
This is usually a symptom of a program bug. Some versions of malloc/free
are forgiving of this kind scenario:
a = malloc (20);
.
.
.
free (a);
.
.
.
free (a);
The double free is wrong and Cygwin's version of malloc will have problems
with this.
cgf
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