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Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 12:37:17 -0400
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Maarten Boekhold wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a program that segfaults, and it's quite obvious that this is 
> caused due to some memory corruption. Except it segfaults at a place 
> where, if running it in gdb, there shouldn't be a problem. There seems 
> to be some memory corruption somewhere, and I can't figure out where.
>
> I tried linking the app with dmalloc, but I can't get it to generate a 
> log file, even if I explicitly request one by including calls to the 
> dmalloc library in the application. Valgrind doesn't seem to be 
> available on cygwin either.
>
> Can anybody recommend a way to debug this sort of error? Are there any 
> other memory debuggers available that work with cygwin?
>
> Maarten
>
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