It's in RecvUntil, but I still can't see anything wrong with it.  The 
only thing I can think of is if the socket is receiving a spew of 
characters.

Try this irc.cpp.  debug.log may grow rapidly so be ready to kill it.

mmalmi@cc.hut.fi wrote:
> debug.log attached
> 
>> That narrows it down a lot.  It didn't print any IRC activity in
>> debug.log, so I guess it couldn't have gotten past the RecvUntil.
>> Eyeballing it I don't see anything obvious.  I guess it would have to
>> be either in ConnectSocket or RecvUntil.
>>
>> Try it with the attached irc.cpp and net.cpp and send me the debug.log.
>>
>> Or you could run it in gdb and step through ThreadIRCSeed
>> gdb --args bitcoin [switches]
>> b ThreadIRCSeed
>> run
>> step
>> or u to step over and up out of routines.
>>
>> mmalmi@cc.hut.fi wrote:
>>> I get the error regardless of the getinfo. Commenting out  
>>> ThreadIRCSeed fixed the problem.
>>>
>>>> Does it still do it if you didn't do getinfo?
>>>>
>>>> You could comment out the CreateThreads listed below, then re-enable
>>>> them one at a time until it does it again.  Then we would know which
>>>> thread the problem is in.
>>>>
>>>> net.cpp, under // Start threads
>>>>    CreateThread(ThreadIRCSeed, NULL)
>>>>    CreateThread(ThreadSocketHandler, NULL, true)
>>>>    CreateThread(ThreadOpenConnections, NULL)
>>>>    CreateThread(ThreadMessageHandler, NULL)
>>>>
>>>> init.cpp:
>>>>    CreateThread(ThreadRPCServer, NULL);
>>>>
>>>> mmalmi@cc.hut.fi wrote:
>>>>> Here goes. I forgot to mention the crash error message:
>>>>>
>>>>> terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
>>>>> what():  std::bad_alloc
>>>>>
>>>>>> Could you send me the debug.log?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> mmalmi@cc.hut.fi wrote:
>>>>>>> I tried debugging my build of bitcoind with ddd debugger, but   
>>>>>>>  didn't have much success yet. It always ends up taking all the 
>>>>>>>    system's memory and finally crashes. Could you please send 
>>>>>>> me   again  the latest 64 bit build of bitcoind, so I can see if 
>>>>>>> the   problem is  about my build?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>
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