https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=293439 User casualprogrammer@yahoo.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=293439#c54 --- Comment #54 from Casual J. Programmer <casualprogrammer@yahoo.com> 2008-03-02 10:39:44 MST --- As it turns out export MALLOC_CHECK_="" does the trick. As http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/libc/Heap-Consistency-Checking.ht... points out: "Another possibility to check for and guard against bugs in the use of malloc, realloc and free is to set the environment variable MALLOC_CHECK_. When MALLOC_CHECK_ is set, a special (less efficient) implementation is used which is designed to be tolerant against simple errors, such as double calls of free with the same argument, or overruns of a single byte (off-by-one bugs). Not all such errors can be protected against, however, and memory leaks can result. If MALLOC_CHECK_ is set to 0, any detected heap corruption is silently ignored; if set to 1, a diagnostic is printed on stderr; if set to 2, abort is called immediately. This can be useful because otherwise a crash may happen much later, and the true cause for the problem is then very hard to track down." So I set MALLOC_CHECK_=1 and, while eclipse runs properly, get flooded with: *** glibc detected *** /media/WS6L-Extern1/Downloads/eclipse/eclipse: free(): invalid pointer: 0x0b182928 *** *** glibc detected *** /media/WS6L-Extern1/Downloads/eclipse/eclipse: free(): invalid pointer: 0x0b18a488 *** *** glibc detected *** /media/WS6L-Extern1/Downloads/eclipse/eclipse: free(): invalid pointer: 0x0b18a2d0 *** *** glibc detected *** /media/WS6L-Extern1/Downloads/eclipse/eclipse: free(): invalid pointer: 0x0b167cc0 *** *** glibc detected *** /media/WS6L-Extern1/Downloads/eclipse/eclipse: free(): invalid pointer: 0x0b3a0410 *** *** glibc detected *** /media/WS6L-Extern1/Downloads/eclipse/eclipse: free(): invalid pointer: 0x0b3a04f0 *** What gives ? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.