Re: it's make's fault (was: Re: fakeroot status (an ongoing story :)

[Wolfgang Jährling]

Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote:
> The problem is that it doesn't crash if run in gdb, but it does crash if
> not.

BTW, this is called a heisenbug. The Jargon file says about them:

"In C, nine out of ten heisenbugs result from uninitialized auto
variables, fandango on core phenomena (esp. lossage related to
corruption of the malloc arena) or errors that smash the stack."

Cheers,
GNU/Wolfgang

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