[MPlayer-dev-eng] workaround for SEGFAULTs during rtsp download

Fri Mar 11 23:00:28 CET 2005

On Thursday, 10 March 2005 at 17:47, Willem de Bruijn wrote:
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> I honestly can't see how a malloc of sizeof(char) * 384 can crash a system. 
> Perhaps it doesn't directly, but it did appear to be the main problem. Could 
> this be related to a thread that is waiting on this data? In any case, 
> increasing the buffer size helped.

It could be 64bit-related, if you're running 64bit system, which you didn't
mention. See if there are pointers at work there.

R.

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