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Re: about the bug of glibc detected free invalid pointer

From: Jeff Pohlmeyer <yetanothergeek_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:28:27 -0600

On Feb 13, 2008 3:41 AM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:

> Your output even included OpenSSL details which seems
> terribly strange since your test case doesn't even use SSL

I remember something like that before, if libcurl's internal
data gets corrupted, and it gets to:

  if (something->use_ssl) { do_ssl_stuff(); }

When libcurl's memory has been stepped on, there's
no telling what the value of "use_ssl" might be.

 - Jeff
Received on 2008-02-13