malloc(): error: recursive call

[Daniel Eischen]

On Tue, 27 May 2003, Petri Helenius wrote:

> I'm using libkse cvsupped+built on 24th  May  and  seem to run into 
> these messages:
>  malloc(): error: recursive call
> 
> It seems that I get these when the call goes through libc functions like 
> strdup, asprintf, etc.
> but so far none happened with direct call to malloc from my code. Is 
> there some linking trick
> I need to perform (apart from putting -lkse  to the end of the Makefile 
> line)  to  get the locking
> work properly ?

Are you linking to libkse before linking to libc?  (Don't explicitly
link to libc).  Or are you linking to other libraries that are linked
to libc_r?

We haven't had any problems like that in all of our tests.

-- 
Dan Eischen