Re: crash on exit, on OS X

[Allin C. <cot...@wf...>]

On Wed, 20 Mar 2013, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 2:34 AM, Allin Cottrell wrote:
>> Sorry if I've missed discussion of this, but I'm seeing a crash on
>> exiting gnuplot (by typing "quit" or "q" then Enter) when running in
>> Terminal.app on Mac OS X.
>>
>> This is with current CVS gnuplot, OS X 10.6.8. The message I'm
>> getting is:
>>
>> gnuplot> q
>> gnuplot(19077) malloc: *** error for object 0x71: pointer being
>> freed was not allocated
>> *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
>> Abort trap
>
> Which compiler, which terminal and what libraries did you use
> (MacPorts, Fink, Homebrew or nothing)? I tried it on 10.7 with
> libraries from MacPorts, but I don't experience that problem with a
> couple of simple plotting commands.

Apple's gcc, AquaTerm, other libraries compiled from source on 
the target machine. I'll try a build with debugging enabled 
and see if I can get a better idea of what's happening. In the 
meantime I'm attaching the OS X trace in case it's any help.

-- 
Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University, NC