Re: GTK+ 1.2.10 on Solaris has segfault inside malloc

[Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>]

your program almost certainly has a bug. i would suggest running it
under valgrind, or an equivalent (*). errors like the one you are seeing
are more or less instantly recognizable to long time programmers as
evidence of memory corruption elsewhere in the program (think "buffer
overrun" or "pointer walk").

--p

(*) valgrind is perhaps the most useful programming tool i have
    discovered in the last 5 years, after libsigc++ :) valgrind is,
    simply put, superb.