From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat Dec 14 13:05:37 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id NAA12737 for bugs-outgoing; Sat, 14 Dec 1996 13:05:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from tfs.com (tfs.com [140.145.250.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id NAA12727 for ; Sat, 14 Dec 1996 13:05:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.tfs.com by tfs.com (smail3.1.28.1) with SMTP id m0vZ1GX-0003wgC; Sat, 14 Dec 96 13:05 PST Received: from critter.tfs.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.tfs.com (8.8.2/8.8.2) with ESMTP id VAA05538; Sat, 14 Dec 1996 21:02:06 +0100 (MET) To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) cc: bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Malloc bug report In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 14 Dec 1996 18:31:58 +0100." Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 21:02:05 +0100 Message-ID: <5536.850593725@critter.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message , Ollivier Robert wri tes: >According to J Wunsch: >> > 2) in the 'tin' newsreader, when it _first_ starts, and is setting up >> > its files; it produces, >> > Malloc warning: free():junk pointer, to high to make sense. > >This one means that tin is trying to free() a constant string. No, that would be at a "too low" address. It can be either: malloced memory -- in the meantime we have sbrk(2)'ed back below the target address. mmap(2)'ed something. stack. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Power and ignorance is a disgusting cocktail.