On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 11:55 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:07:04 +0100, I wrote: > > > Fedora 12 with LD_PRELOAD=libefence.so.0.0 EF_ALLOW_MALLOC_0=1, what is > > more likely that these are false positives or real bugs? > > It's hard to find GNOME/GTK apps that don't crash. One that works fine > in efence is "gnome-about". > > Many non-GUI tools also pass. procps's w doesn't, and that's not a false > positive: > > $ w > > Electric Fence 2.2.2 Copyright (C) 1987-1999 Bruce Perens <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> > Segmentation fault (core dumped) > > ==> setlocale() usage bug, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/548711 > > > $ eog > > Electric Fence 2.2.2 Copyright (C) 1987-1999 Bruce Perens <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> > Segmentation fault (core dumped) > > ==> in ORBit corba-any.c once more All the GNOME apps that use GConf or ORBit will fail because you need to set the alignment to 8. Same problem under valgrind. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list