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Re: glibc detected *** grep: free(): invalid next size (fast): fixed in glibc-2.4.90-36

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>
To: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
Cc: Petr Baudis <pasky at suse dot cz>, Chandru <chandru at in dot ibm dot com>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 18:16:09 -0400
Subject: Re: glibc detected *** grep: free(): invalid next size (fast): fixed in glibc-2.4.90-36
References: <452E6005.4000500@in.ibm.com> <20061013214634.GB15866@pasky.or.cz>

On Friday 13 October 2006 17:46, Petr Baudis wrote:
>   those version numbers are almost meaningless, they are just arbitrary
> points of time chosen by your distribution and we have no way of knowing
> what they correspond to. There were some changes in malloc() during
> summer and at one point the allocator was fairly broken.  So you need to
> find out the CVS of what date each of those glibc version uses, then
> compare those two versions.

or even better, file a bug with your distro and let them sort it out
-mike

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References:
- glibc detected *** grep: free(): invalid next size (fast): fixed in glibc-2.4.90-36
  - From: Chandru
- Re: glibc detected *** grep: free(): invalid next size (fast): fixed in glibc-2.4.90-36
  - From: Petr Baudis

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