seg fault using octave with RH 6.0

[John W. Eaton]

On 12-May-1999, Timothy H. Keitt <address@hidden> wrote:

| Anyone know what is going on with the back trace below?
| I keep getting seg fault when I load one of my compiled
| .oct file into octave.  Its odd because it only happens
| with one routine and not any others.  (This particular
| routine uses both set<> and map<,> from the STL.)  My
| guess is that memory is getting corrupted somewhere.
| The same code ran fine on RH 5.2.

That is almost always the problem when a crash happens inside malloc.

If you have enough memory available on your system, you might be able
to get a better clue by linking Octave with the Electric Fence library
and running your example again under gdb.  That is more likely to
catch the actual location of the problem.

jwe