Re: Linux 2.1.125 doesn't dump core on SIGSEGV

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

Don't ask me. I have noticed more than once that "I forgot to initialize
malloc()ed data structures" segfaults go away when I run programs under
gdb.

Whether "memory layout" is an accurate description of this is debatable,
but the existence of the effect is not, unfortunately. :-(

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