From kde-core-devel  Tue Jul 06 07:13:44 1999
From: Waldo Bastian <bastian () ens ! ascom ! ch>
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 07:13:44 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: stupid debug error.
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=93124540732612

Cristian Tibirna wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> kcontrol segfaults on a heck of a iconloader use at

> (gdb) back
> #0 chunk_alloc (ar_ptr=0x407a1580, nb=24) at malloc.c:2777
> #1 0x40710b8a in __libc_malloc (bytes=20) at malloc.c:2616
> #2 0x4068c006 in __builtin_new (sz=20)
> #3 0x4034a28f in QString::QString ()
> #4 0x401ac9a1 in KIconLoader::loadInternal ()
> #5 0x401ac24a in KIconLoader::loadIcon ()
> #6 0x8052aa0 in mainWidget::mainWidget ()
> #7 0x8051d28 in TopLevel::TopLevel ()
> #8 0x80514de in standalone ()
> #9 0x805178c in main ()
> #10 0x406d0cb3 in __libc_start_main (main=0x8051578 <main>, argc=1,
>     argv=0xbffff8d4, init=0x804db70 <_init>, fini=0x8053c20 <_fini>,
>     rtld_fini=0x4000a350 <_dl_fini>, stack_end=0xbffff8cc)
>     at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:78
> (gdb)
> 
> Cristian

It crashes in malloc which means that you have screwed up 
(somewhere else) your memory administration.

Electric Fence (libefence) is a nice way to find these errors.
Don't know if it works with KDE apps though.

Cheers,
Waldo
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