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Date:      Fri, 03 Aug 2007 19:40:49 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Morten Welinder <mortenw@gnome.org>
Cc:        gnome@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Gnumeric Crashes
Message-ID:  <1186184449.9371.20.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <118833cc0708031630y625b31afv1b38d6e566d695f3@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 19:30 -0400, Morten Welinder wrote:
> Thanks for trying.
>=20
> Is there some kind of Valgrind/Purify lookalike for FreeBSD that you coul=
d
> try?  Or a malloc checker?

We do have a built-in malloc checker that can be enabled by
symlinking /etc/malloc.conf to "AJ":

ln -sf AJ /etc/malloc.conf

This will cause all memory regions to be junk-filled upon allocation and
deallocation, and trigger an abort() if memory is accessed improperly.
There is also a valgrind port for FreeBSD, but it does not work well
with threaded programs :-(.

>=20
> > Are there any other ways to reproduce it (other than entering
> > "=3Dsin(42)+min(12,23)" and quitting, I mean) or any other info that I =
can
> > provide?
>=20
> Loading a random, big xls file and playing a bit with the menus and dialo=
gs
> might be useful.  I don't know what triggers the crash -- the sin/min thi=
ng
> is sure to trigger the dynamic library unloading, though.
>=20
> What libgsf version, btw.?

We just updated our ports tree libgsf to 1.14.5.  Note: I cannot
reproduce either with Gnumeric 1.7.11 on FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE.

>=20
> I don't know if it is relevant, but several of the crash reports have
> been from Japan.

I tried a ja locale, and I still can't get it to crash.

Joe

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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team      ::      gnome@FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome

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