Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:53:01 +0100 From: Ulrich Spoerlein <q@galgenberg.net> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Typical malloc-related application bugs Message-ID: <20060120125301.GB1088@galgenberg.net> In-Reply-To: <1137741767.75264.27.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <6BD97F93-5E85-4A5A-8751-DC0C0382B916@FreeBSD.org> <1137741767.75264.27.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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--GyRA7555PLgSTuth Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 23:10 -0800, Jason Evans wrote: > > 2) Out-of-bounds writes. [...] >=20 > I'm seeing a lot of this when I run gnome-system-monitor. There appears > to be a bug in libgtop, but I don't know how to make these messages > fatal in order to produce a backtrace I can use to narrow down where the > problem lies. What can I do to isolate where in the code the redzone > corruption is occurring? Try running it in valgrind first, if you're lucky, it will immediately point you to the faulty spot. Ulrich Spoerlein --=20 PGP Key ID: 20FEE9DD Encrypted mail welcome! Fingerprint: AEC9 AF5E 01AC 4EE1 8F70 6CBD E76E 2227 20FE E9DD Which is worse: ignorance or apathy? Don't know. Don't care. --GyRA7555PLgSTuth Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFD0N0t524iJyD+6d0RAge7AJoC6SgHR+pmOJ2zj1nGFhvMdXimqQCfTq2m WRjhdNbo2FxTyD5262mKZiQ= =u6RC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --GyRA7555PLgSTuth--
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