From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27686 invoked from network); 14 Jun 1999 08:30:19 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 14 Jun 1999 08:30:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 2184 invoked by alias); 14 Jun 1999 08:29:07 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 6613 Received: (qmail 2177 invoked from network); 14 Jun 1999 08:29:05 -0000 To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk Path: mason From: mason@primenet.com.au (Geoff Wing) X-Newsgroups: lists.zsh.workers Subject: Re: BUG: 3.1.5-pws-21: lfs Date: 14 Jun 1999 08:28:21 GMT Organization: PrimeNet Computer Consultants Distribution: local Message-ID: References: "Geoff Wing"'s message of "14 Jun 1999 08:08:42 NFT." <9906140749.AA31296@ibmth.df.unipi.it> Reply-To: mason@primenet.com.au NNTP-Posting-Host: coral.primenet.com.au X-Trace: coral.primenet.com.au 929348901 27603 203.43.15.2 (14 Jun 1999 08:28:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@coral.primenet.com.au NNTP-Posting-Date: 14 Jun 1999 08:28:21 GMT User-Agent: slrn/0.9.5.6 (UNIX) Peter Stephenson typed: :Geoff Wing wrote: :> :I get a near continuous spew out of: :> : BUG: attempt to free storage at invalid address :> Occurs due to malloc() not aligning on M_ALIGN. :Any chance you could find out where in zsh's malloc() this is happening? :It's probably something like one of the structs m_hdr, m_shdr or heap not :having a size divisible by 8. I altered definitions of structures and sizes :to get this to work on one system (IRIX 6.2 with gcc), so there is some :compiler/system dependency here. I forgot we were using an internal malloc(). I just picked up the problem from zalloc() and zcalloc(). I'll have a look through malloc() now and see what I can stuff up^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hfix. Regards, -- Geoff Wing : Work URL: http://www.primenet.com.au/ Rxvt Stuff : Ego URL : http://pobox.com/~gcw/ Zsh Stuff : Phone : (Australia) 0413 431 874