From: Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
To: "Zsh Hackers' List" <zsh-workers@sunsite.dk>
Subject: Re: Modules on HP-UX (Re: D07multibyte.ztst failure on HP-UX 11.11)
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 09:52:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090511095232.117c7548@news01> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <090508084125.ZM17697@torch.brasslantern.com>
On Fri, 08 May 2009 08:41:23 -0700
Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
> [off-list]
>
> On May 8, 3:29pm, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> } Subject: Re: Modules on HP-UX (Re: D07multibyte.ztst failure on HP-UX 11.1
> }
> } Looks to me like some basic memory corruption: is it worth running
> } valgrind?
>
> (skipping stuff up to the point of actual error)
>...
> ==17685== at 0x8127AA0: zle_set_highlight (zle_refresh.c:354)
There are lots of these, but all seem to boil down to the fact that
region_highlights and n_region_highlights are not set to zero when the
module is unloaded and the same values are used when the module is loaded
again.
It seemed like this was worth a note in the development guide. The main
problem is no one reads that.
Index: Etc/zsh-development-guide
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/Etc/zsh-development-guide,v
retrieving revision 1.21
diff -u -r1.21 zsh-development-guide
--- Etc/zsh-development-guide 22 Jan 2009 12:12:14 -0000 1.21
+++ Etc/zsh-development-guide 11 May 2009 08:51:11 -0000
@@ -279,6 +279,10 @@
not rely on the module successfully being set up.
The state from `finish_' module is currently ignored; it is called
too late to prevent the module from being unloaded.
+*Note* in addition to freeing memory, variables associated with allocated
+memory should be set to NULL or to indicate arrays are empty, etc. It
+should not be assumed that the variables will automatically be zeroed if
+the module is reloaded (though some configurations may do this).
In short, the `cleanup_'-function should undo what the `boot_'-function did
(together with handling any residual effects of `enables_'), but should
Index: Src/Zle/zle_refresh.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/Src/Zle/zle_refresh.c,v
retrieving revision 1.75
diff -u -r1.75 zle_refresh.c
--- Src/Zle/zle_refresh.c 8 May 2009 08:37:31 -0000 1.75
+++ Src/Zle/zle_refresh.c 11 May 2009 08:51:11 -0000
@@ -2644,6 +2644,10 @@
freevideo();
if (region_highlights)
+ {
zfree(region_highlights,
sizeof(struct region_highlight) * n_region_highlights);
+ region_highlights = NULL;
+ n_region_highlights = 0;
+ }
}
--
Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> Software Engineer
CSR PLC, Churchill House, Cambridge Business Park, Cowley Road
Cambridge, CB4 0WZ, UK Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-11 8:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-27 3:17 D07multibyte.ztst failure on HP-UX 11.11 Paul Ackersviller
2009-04-27 4:42 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2009-04-27 19:26 ` Paul Ackersviller
2009-04-28 8:48 ` Peter Stephenson
2009-04-28 19:19 ` Paul Ackersviller
2009-04-28 19:48 ` Peter Stephenson
2009-04-30 3:01 ` Paul Ackersviller
2009-04-30 8:41 ` Peter Stephenson
2009-04-30 15:58 ` Paul Ackersviller
2009-04-30 16:03 ` Peter Stephenson
2009-05-01 14:52 ` Paul Ackersviller
2009-05-01 15:18 ` Peter Stephenson
2009-05-05 19:39 ` Paul Ackersviller
2009-05-06 19:22 ` Peter Stephenson
2009-05-06 21:50 ` Paul Ackersviller
2009-05-07 15:38 ` Peter Stephenson
2009-05-07 16:02 ` Peter Stephenson
2009-05-07 22:08 ` Paul Ackersviller
2009-05-07 23:30 ` Modules on HP-UX (Re: D07multibyte.ztst failure on HP-UX 11.11) Bart Schaefer
2009-05-08 8:34 ` Peter Stephenson
2009-05-08 14:20 ` Bart Schaefer
2009-05-08 14:29 ` Peter Stephenson
[not found] ` <090508084125.ZM17697@torch.brasslantern.com>
2009-05-11 8:52 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2009-05-08 18:42 ` Modules on HP-UX Paul Ackersviller
2009-05-12 20:22 ` Modules on HP-UX, with small PATCH Paul Ackersviller
2009-05-08 14:23 ` D07multibyte.ztst failure on HP-UX 11.11 Peter Stephenson
2009-05-02 1:00 ` Phil Pennock
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