Re: [Boost-users] program_options: pointer being freed was not allocated

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] program_options: pointer being freed was not allocated
From: Matan Nassau (matan.nassau_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-05-21 15:28:19

I think I just resolved the issue, but I'm not entirely sure I understood
what went wrong.

I neglected to mention that I had installed gcc 4.6.0 prior to installing
Boost. I installed gcc like so:

 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --program-suffix=-4.6
 make
 make install

When I uninstalled gcc, like so

 sort -r gcc_files |while read f; do
   sudo rm $f 2>/dev/null || sudo rmdir $f 2>/dev/null;
 done

and then rebuilt and reinstalled Boost, the program I enlisted in my
previous post ran without a crash.

Perhaps g++-4.6 files got in the way in using g++-4.0 ? I'd really like to
have g++-4.6 to enjoy the latest taste of C++0x it features! Sorry if I'm
jumping off-topic here, but I'm not sure where I should otherwise ask about
getting g++-4.6 working with Boost v1.46.1.

Matan

On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Matan Nassau <matan.nassau_at_[hidden]>wrote:

> Hi!
>
> When I run the following program,
>
>  #include <boost/program_options.hpp>
>
>  int main()
>  {
>      boost::program_options::positional_options_description positional;
>      return 0;
>  }
>
> the program aborts with the error
>
>  sandbox(1791) malloc: *** error for object 0x7fff70506500: pointer being
> freed was not allocated
>  *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
>
> My platform is Mac OS X 10.6.7. I installed Boost 1.46.1 on my own, like
> so:
>
>  ./bootstrap --prefix=/usr/local
>  ./bjam memory-model=64
>  ./bjam install
>
> The toolset bjam chose was darwin, which uses gcc-4.0 if I understood the
> build correctly. I also tried rebuilding boost with
>
>   ./bjam memory-model=64 toolset=darwin-4.2
>
> but the issue persisted.
>
>
> Any idea what causes this crash?
>
>
> Matan
>