Typical malloc-related application bugs

[Ulrich Spoerlein]

Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 23:10 -0800, Jason Evans wrote:
> > 2) Out-of-bounds writes. [...]
> 
> I'm seeing a lot of this when I run gnome-system-monitor.  There appears
> to be a bug in libgtop, but I don't know how to make these messages
> fatal in order to produce a backtrace I can use to narrow down where the
> problem lies.  What can I do to isolate where in the code the redzone
> corruption is occurring?

Try running it in valgrind first, if you're lucky, it will immediately
point you to the faulty spot.

Ulrich Spoerlein
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