In a 12D build with the default gcc 4.1.0 on SuSE Linux Enterprise
Server 10 (x86_64), the following simple program abends with the
error below after upgrading the 4.1.3 library to 4.2.0:

#include <string>

int main ()
{
     std::string s = "a";
}

The only library symbols referenced from the executable are

   __rw::__rw_throw(int, ...)
   __rw::__rw_deallocate(void*, unsigned long, int)
   std::string::_C_null_ref
   std::string::string(char const*, std::allocator<char> const&)

Of these, the first one isn't being called and the second and
fourth haven't changed (according to diff of string.cc). I hate
to admit I'm stumped. I suppose I should try to do a build on
a different distribution of Linux with an older version of gcc
to see if I can reproduce it there.


*** glibc detected *** ./t: free(): invalid pointer: 0x0000000000500fe8 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib64/libc.so.6[0x2b71c3a4537e]
/lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_free+0x6c)[0x2b71c3a4699c]
./t(__gxx_personality_v0+0x198)[0x400968]
/lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4)[0x2b71c39f7154]
./t(__gxx_personality_v0+0x59)[0x400829]