Re: matlab crashes on amd64

[Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>]

On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 01:16:08PM +0200, Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote:
> Hi
>    I have the following error using matlab. It doesn't even start, only giving 
> the following message:
> *** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption: 0x000000000059dde0 ***
> Aborted
> I think it has to do with the upgrade from libc6 from 2.3.2 to 2.3.5. 
> I am using Matlab version 7.0.4. 

This is most likely a bug in matlab and not in glibc.

Try setting the environment variable MALLOC_CHECK_ to 0, it
should disable such checks.  But this really is only a workaround
of a bug.


Kurt