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| author | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com> | 2012-11-27 22:30:22 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com> | 2012-11-27 22:30:22 +0100 |
| commit | ae1cc0d932c8bb939fa2037e6183c1ce8f550942 (patch) | |
| tree | d86ac5a03830f27112a61714a5ab1a74fcd760e5 /open_issues/code_analysis.mdwn | |
| parent | 5cc8714e4af82bec2ad7ea2d2479016e5a74de9b (diff) | |
open_issues/code_analysis: MALLOC_CHECK_, MALLOC_PERTURB_.
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1 files changed, 19 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/open_issues/code_analysis.mdwn b/open_issues/code_analysis.mdwn index fd8a36de..b3908243 100644 --- a/open_issues/code_analysis.mdwn +++ b/open_issues/code_analysis.mdwn @@ -103,18 +103,25 @@ There is a [[!FF_project 276]][[!tag bounty]] on some of these tasks. * <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CompilerFlags> - * IRC, freenode, #glibc, 2011-09-28 - - <vsrinivas> two things you can do -- there is an environment variable - (DEBUG_MALLOC_ iirc?) that can be set to 2 to make ptmalloc (glibc's - allocator) more forceful and verbose wrt error checking - <vsrinivas> another is to grab a copy of Tor's source tree and copy out - OpenBSD's allocator (its a clearly-identifyable file in the tree); - LD_PRELOAD it or link it into your app, it is even more aggressive - about detecting memory misuse. - <vsrinivas> third, Red hat has a gdb python plugin that can instrument - glibc's heap structure. its kinda handy, might help? - <vsrinivas> MALLOC_CHECK_ was the envvar you want, sorry. + * `MALLOC_CHECK_`/`MALLOC_PERTURB_` + + * IRC, freenode, #glibc, 2011-09-28 + + <vsrinivas> two things you can do -- there is an environment + variable (DEBUG_MALLOC_ iirc?) that can be set to 2 to make + ptmalloc (glibc's allocator) more forceful and verbose wrt error + checking + <vsrinivas> another is to grab a copy of Tor's source tree and copy + out OpenBSD's allocator (its a clearly-identifyable file in the + tree); LD_PRELOAD it or link it into your app, it is even more + aggressive about detecting memory misuse. + <vsrinivas> third, Red hat has a gdb python plugin that can + instrument glibc's heap structure. its kinda handy, might help? + <vsrinivas> MALLOC_CHECK_ was the envvar you want, sorry. + + * [`MALLOC_PERTURB_`](http://udrepper.livejournal.com/11429.html) + + * <http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/initscripts.git/diff/?id=deb0df0124fbe9b645755a0a44c7cb8044f24719> * In context of [[!message-id "1341350006-2499-1-git-send-email-rbraun@sceen.net"]]/the `alloca` issue |