https://phab.enlightenment.org/w/debugging/
Look for the section: Finding memory problems with Valgrind dh On 01/08/2017 05:20 PM, Jeff Hoogland wrote: > How does valgrind differ from Xephyr? Is there a wiki page explaining how > to do what you are suggesting? > > On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 2:39 AM, Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com> > wrote: > >> On Fri, 6 Jan 2017 02:21:10 -0600 Jeff Hoogland <jeffhoogl...@gmail.com> >> said: >> >>> Having some users report segfaults with our E17 fork using the latest EFL >>> under our Ubuntu 16.04 base. >>> >>> Had someone run a back trace and post it here >>> <http://forums.bodhilinux.com/index.php?/topic/14036-moksha- >> segfault/?p=102195>. >>> Looks like it is dying in the EFL somewhere? I'm honestly not great at >>> debugging C code - anyone help point me in the right direction? >> >> the backtrace is "long after the bug already happened". the malloc heap is >> corrupt. libc has detected something is wrong and aborted during an >> allocation. >> what caused the issue is unknown. it could be efl. could be e. could be >> libpng. could be just about anything. it is unknown. the best way to find >> out >> who is doing this is to use valgrind to run execution and it can trap >> out-of-allocation writes and tell you the exact point where this write is >> done. >> that would provide the info needed to fix if it isn;'t already fixed in >> git efl >> - if the issue is there. if the issue is in e17 it'd point that out too. or >> wherever else it is. >> >> -- >> ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- >> The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com >> >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
