From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 17 14:53:17 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@www.freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@www.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C5CA16A41F for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:53:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ggajic@afrodita.rcub.bg.ac.yu) Received: from afrodita.rcub.bg.ac.yu (afrodita.rcub.bg.ac.yu [147.91.1.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D0C143D45 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:53:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ggajic@afrodita.rcub.bg.ac.yu) Received: from afrodita.rcub.bg.ac.yu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by afrodita.rcub.bg.ac.yu (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k0HEr1wU008489; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:53:02 +0100 Received: from localhost (ggajic@localhost) by afrodita.rcub.bg.ac.yu (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) with ESMTP id k0HEqwRv008486; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:52:59 +0100 Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:52:58 +0100 (CET) From: Goran Gajic To: Joseph Koshy In-Reply-To: <84dead720601170605m406353b5nfbe9e4f2890b59b4@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <84dead720601170605m406353b5nfbe9e4f2890b59b4@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-RCUB-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the RCUB if you have problem with mail X-RCUB-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-RCUB-MailScanner-From: ggajic@afrodita.rcub.bg.ac.yu X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:00:17 +0000 Cc: freebsd-current@www.freebsd.org Subject: Re: recent changes to libc on amd64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:53:17 -0000 Hi, I have already tried - malloc.c 1.93, 1.94 and 1.95 seems to break joe and Xorg on amd64 (so far only two applications I have found not working). On i386 so far I haven't experienced such problems. I have tried switching back to malloc.c 1.92 and I don't experience any problems on amd64. Running joe through gdb reports that it breaks somewhere in libncurses.. Regards, gg. On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Joseph Koshy wrote: >> I don't know if this is just amd64 related since it will take >> me some time to rebuild on i386. > > We have a new malloc(3) in -current. From /usr/src/UPDATING: > > 20060113: > libc's malloc implementation has been replaced. This > change has the potential to uncover application bugs that > previously went unnoticed. See the malloc(3) manual page > for more details. > > -- > FreeBSD Volunteer, http://people.freebsd.org/~jkoshy >