[mdcarter1]

I'm trying to port a piece of software to OS X and I'm getting the following error:

gcc -g -Wall -DHAVE_XLIB -I/sw/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -c help.c -o help.o
*** malloc[741]: error for object 0x6b04c0: Incorrect checksum for freed object - object was probably modified after being freed; break at szone_error
gcc: Internal error: Segmentation fault (program /usr/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/cpp-precomp)
Please submit a full bug report.
See <URL:http://developer.apple.com/bugreporter> for instructions.
make: *** [help.o] Error 1


Anybody have a clue what this is? I've never heard of this.

[smeger]

gccc is releasing a block of memory that it allocated twice instead of once. It's a bug with gcc. You should follow their instructions and submit a bug report.

Any clue what code is causing it to die, out of curiosity?

[mdcarter1]

Yeah I just tracked it down to a header file that has about ten huge char strings declared in it. The strings are just help messages so I can omit them for now. The only thing done in the header is declare these strings.