Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 21:02:05 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) Cc: bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Malloc bug report Message-ID: <5536.850593725@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 14 Dec 1996 18:31:58 %2B0100." <Mutt.19961214183158.roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
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In message <Mutt.19961214183158.roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>, Ollivier Robert wri tes: >According to J Wunsch: >> > 2) in the 'tin' newsreader, when it _first_ starts, and is setting up >> > its files; it produces, >> > Malloc warning: free():junk pointer, to high to make sense. > >This one means that tin is trying to free() a constant string. No, that would be at a "too low" address. It can be either: malloced memory -- in the meantime we have sbrk(2)'ed back below the target address. mmap(2)'ed something. stack. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Power and ignorance is a disgusting cocktail.
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