gcc error

mark m.roth at 5-cent.us
Tue Nov 17 01:53:35 UTC 2009


Sanjay Chakraborty wrote:
> I am running an application in RHEL AS 4.8 and getting this error "***
> glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer:" and after research  i
> found the application that compile with gcc3.4 or highter run on RHEL
> 4  crash but works well when compiled with gcc3.2.3 with RHEL 3.
> 
> The problem is that I cannot change the OS level back to RHEL 3 and
> cannot move to RHEL 5 and I have to stay with RHEL 4 only.
> If I force install the old gcc (gcc3.2.3) will it make problem ... I
> am not sure,
> 
> Any one can suggest any idea  or work around ?
> 
I hate to say this, but someone should fix the code.

	mark, a bit too busy, but 12+ years of C

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