Re: Memory

From: George (greerga@CIRCLEMUD.ORG)
Date: 03/02/98


On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Chuck Reed wrote:

>Ok, I've looked around for sprintf statements overflowing bufs but couldn't
>find any.  However, this darned memory crash keeps on happening.  This is
>the latest gdb output i've gotten:

It could also be strcpy, strcat, etc and over/under writing to an array.

>171     int main(int argc, char **argv)
>172     {
>173       char buf[512];
>
>Does this mean that the global 'buf' has been overrun somewhere?

No, that is a private 'buf', and GDB is fairly useless on memory overruns.
(Unless you go printing the private malloc structures to see what was
overwritten and what is there now.)

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