Re: glibc utility function errors

[Matt Bragano <maestro485 comcast net>]

Thanks for pointing that out.  I'll try out a different version of glibc 
and see what happens.

Jonathon Jongsma wrote:

> On 4/23/06, Matt Bragano <maestro485 comcast net> wrote:
>  
>
> > Every time I use the glibc utility functions (Glib::get_home_directory()
> > specifically), I receive this runtime error:
> >
> > *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (out): 0x080827f8 ***
> >
> > However, if I replace Glib::get_home_directory() with a hard coded path
> > (i.e. /home/matt/) everything seems to work fine.
> >
> > I'm fairly new to both c++ and gtkmm, so please excuse me if this is an
> > obvious thing or the wrong list.
> >
> >    
>
> I don't have any recommendations on your particular problem, but I
> just wanted to let you know that I think you're confusing glibc and
> GLib (admittedly their names lend themselves easily to confusion). 
> glibc is the GNU C library (i.e. the C standard library that gets
> automatically linked to any C program by gcc).  Glib is a
> general-purpose utility library used by GTK+ and GNOME.  These are
> very different things.  The error you're seeing is from glibc, not
> Glib (of course, GLib might be causing the error in glibc, I don't
> know).
>
> Jonner
>
>