[MPlayer-dev-eng] workaround for SEGFAULTs during rtsp download
wdb at few.vu.nl
wdb at few.vu.nl
Sat Mar 12 10:15:51 CET 2005
Quoting Trent Piepho <xyzzy at speakeasy.org>:
> A crash in malloc invariable means that the heap was corrupted by
> overwriting
> past the end of a malloced array or incorrect use of free(). It's very
> unlikely that it's a malloc bug.
that makes sense. thanks for the explanation.
> Can you use electricfence? You might also look at the use the memory
> malloced
> before the one that crashes, and see if it overwrites the end of the array.
> Maybe some code assumes sizeof(int)==sizeof(void*), which isn't true on
> x86-64, is it?
ok, I will. But it'll have to wait until monday as my only 64bit machine is at
work. First I'll check out electric fence. I completely forgot about that.
Willem
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