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Date:      Fri, 9 Apr 2004 07:46:09 -0700
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
To:        "James R. Van Artsalen" <james@jrv.org>
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: malloc: bug or feature ?
Message-ID:  <200404090746.09741.peter@wemm.org>
In-Reply-To: <40765F44.9070705@jrv.org>
References:  <4073F699.6010402@cri.ensmp.fr> <407539A6.4090701@jrv.org> <40765F44.9070705@jrv.org>

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On Friday 09 April 2004 01:31 am, James R. Van Artsalen wrote:
> Peter Wemm wrote:
> > The SEGV looks suspicious though.  I wonder if malloc is trying to
> > put the junk in without checking if malloc failed.
>
> Attached is a proposed patch for this bug.  It fixes the test program
> (which now fails the ASSERT in main() as it ought to).  I have not
> tested it in any other way.
>
> Without this change I expect every brk(2) call that fails to crash.
>
> I haven't checked for equivalent bugs in other functions.

OK, this is embarresing :-)  Thanks!
-- 
Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com
"All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5



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