Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/08/04/15:01:22
Gurunandan R. Bhat (grbhat AT unigoa DOT ernet DOT in) wrote:
: > How did you correct it? xorb or %%eax? And where (line number)?
:
: Actually there is only one occurence of this staement in fullscr.c and
: a simple search will get you a line number. Unfortunately, the machine
Actually not where I looked; there's one xorb and one xorl; that's why
I asked. This is probably because I was looking in an alpha of djlsr.
: I have now built fsdb by linking in malloc by hand and with the -g option.
: I now have some understanding of what is happening. As Eli correctly
: reasoned (without the benefit of an unstripped malloc and -g!!) one member
: of the linked list maintained by malloc/free points somewhere in the
: region of Mars. In terms of malloc's variables,
:
: op->ov_next = garbage
:
: so that when this member is handed out to the application dereferencing
: it causes the crash. I am currently using (learning) gdb to go through the
: code and will report progress if any.
Perhaps you should try alpha/*/djlsr*.zip and see if you have the same
problem? As I mentioned there have been changes, although I don't know
if they change anything for you.
Hungness, Virtual Symphony No. 1,
MartinS
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