From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 7 21:55:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA18061 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 21:55:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt053nb4.san.rr.com (dt053nb4.san.rr.com [204.210.34.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA18055 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 21:55:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Received: from dal.net (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt053nb4.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA16358; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 21:55:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Message-ID: <361C45B4.6A0C8A38@dal.net> Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 21:55:16 -0700 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5b2 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE-0929 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Archie Cobbs CC: FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mail in free(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense. References: <199810080252.TAA29463@bubba.whistle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Archie Cobbs wrote: > Hmm.. is your system elm? Maybe there's a bug in mail that's always > been there, but which is only now exhibited with elf. It's 2.2.7-Stable from 9/20. > A quick look doesn't reveal any obvious logical bugs. The only way this > can be happening is if some code is corrupting the "msgvec" variable > in lex.c. "msgvec" may just be the unlucky victim of some other random > memory corruption. I very rarely see that error on other things, but this is the first time it's been reliably repeatable. Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** Go PADRES! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message