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SubjectRe: Linux 2.1.125 doesn't dump core on SIGSEGV
DateWed, 28 Oct 1998 23:08:42 -0500
FromC S Hendrix <>
In message <vyz7lxkermc.fsf@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de>, Andreas Schwab writes:

> "Matthias Urlichs" <smurf@noris.de> writes:
> 
> |> gdb tends to change the way malloc()ed memory is laid out
> 
> Huh?  How that?

Not sure exactly, but lot's of pointer goofs go away when you run
under gdb.  I used to have a program that did that stored but can't
find it at the moment.

Its probably much the same as why printf() calls can make pointer
problems go away.

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