|> Hi,
|>
|> 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.
Perhaps the size of the environment has changed, which could result in a
slightly different malloc pattern, but other than that the debugger does
not effect the program, since it still runs as a separate process.
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