Why do I get sporadic crashes with some applications in Red Hat Enterprise Linux when the MALLOC_CHECK_ environment variable is set?
Issue
- I receive sporadic crashes with some applications in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.4 or 5.5 when the MALLOC_CHECK_ environment variable is set
- SIGSEGV occurs when freeing memory with checking free() with MALLOC_CHECK_.
# MALLOC_CHECK_=3 ./malloc_test malloc: using debugging hooks Segmentation fault
Environment
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5
- MALLOC_CHECK_ environment variable is set
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