On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Waldo Bastian wrote:

> 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.
> 

Well, I came to the conclusion that my use of Qt-latest-snapshot could
have something to do with these (despite Matthias E's assurance that
source and binary compat is kept)

Thanks
Cristian