Bug 233276

Summary: gdb: free(): invalid pointer
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jim Hayward <jimhayward>
Component: gdbAssignee: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil>
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Description Jim Hayward 2007-03-21 13:34:35 UTC
Description of problem:
After closing a program that was running under gdb, gdb exited with the error.
*** glibc detected *** gdb: free(): invalid pointer: 0x00000000022e59a0 ***

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
$ gdb -v
GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.5-15.fc6rh)

How reproducible:
Have not tried to reproduce the bug again

Steps to Reproduce:
1. gdb program name
2. r
3. debug program
4. close progam being debugged

Comment 1 Jim Hayward 2007-03-21 13:34:35 UTC
Created attachment 150568 [details]
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Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2008-04-04 06:36:51 UTC
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Comment 3 Jim Hayward 2008-04-08 15:02:49 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 433410 ***