octave-3.0.3 crashes while executing 'expfit' ("free(): invalid pointer")

[Dmitri A. Sergatskov]

On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Thomas Weber
<thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 05:28:22PM -0800, Sergei Steshenko wrote:
>> My wild guess there is 'new'/'malloc' somewhere which doesn't check pointer
>> for NULL; on a 64 bits system memory allocation error is less likely than
>> on a 32 bits system.
>>
>> The wild guess is based on the fact that peak memory consumption is about
>> 2G.
>
> What's your system's memory configuration (ie, how much)? RAM and Swap,
> please.
>

On 32-bit machine the issue of memory fragmentation is also more
severe than on 64-bit machine.

> Thanks
>        Thomas

Dmitri.
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