crash with master when plotting the profile

Linus Torvalds torvalds at linux-foundation.org
Mon Jan 7 14:59:55 PST 2013


On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds at linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> I think it's just memory corruption, nothing quite as interesting at that.
>
> Will look at it.

Grr. Apparently you cannot use ElectricFence with gtk applications,
due to some gtk allocation sanity checks. ElectricFence apparently
doesn't know about the intricacies of posix_memalign() etc. Sad,
because that's traditionally a wonderful way to find lots of heap
corruption issues.

                Linus


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