They say public journals are often used as a cry for help:

AAAAAAAAAAARGH.

SIGSEVs in malloc????

lots of memory, try efence.... efence: no complains. (segfault)

string is a const char *  to a str literal...
trying to strdup a string....
(gdp) print string
$1 = "yey"
(gdp) print strlen(string)
<!!boom!!>

this is like beating your head against glibC untill it bleeds bits....

i wonder what happens on solaris...

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x400cec62 in chunk_alloc (ar_ptr=0x40163040, nb=16) at malloc.c:2811
2811	malloc.c: No such file or directory.
(gdb) bt
#0  0x400cec62 in chunk_alloc (ar_ptr=0x40163040, nb=16) at malloc.c:2811
#1  0x400ce40a in __libc_malloc (bytes=8) at malloc.c:2643
#2  0x40048006 in __builtin_new (sz=8) from /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2
#3  0x400481dc in __builtin_vec_new (sz=8) from /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2
#4  0x804d408 in Duplicate_str (str=0xbffffa08 "nisowen") at duplicate_str.cpp:41
#5  0x804ef5b in Bulk_Mail::Bulk_mail_entry::Bulk_mail_entry (this=0x8056ed0, 

how on earth are you supposed to debug that????? same happens with strdup...