On Fri, 12 Jul 2002 01:30:24 +0200 (Romance Daylight Time) Vadim Zeitlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
VZ> On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 09:53:35 +0200 Xavier Nodet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: VZ> VZ> XN> On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 23:49:28 +0200 (CEST) Michele Ravani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: VZ> XN> VZ> XN> MR> below a message copied directly from a folder file, which shows a very VZ> XN> MR> worrying problem: a message with the correct headers etc, but the body of VZ> XN> MR> another message altogether. VZ> XN> VZ> XN> I did actually encounter this problem. I get something like that once in VZ> XN> a week or two. In some cases, the body was not complete and would end VZ> XN> with a string of yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy or something like that. VZ> VZ> Wasn't it a string of "ÿ" (ASCII 254)? This is the marker VC RTL uses for VZ> the uninitialized memory. Yes, you are right. VZ> XN> I guess there could be a dangling pointer somewhere. I will try to VZ> XN> launch Purify on M. VZ> VZ> Unfortunately as we don't know which part of the code contains the bug, it VZ> risks to be non obvious to exercise it. But it doesn't mean you shouldn't VZ> do it of course :-) Of course. Unfortunately, I did not even succeed in launching M under Purify yet. Purify reports a few harmless (for this case) errors, but then seems to fail to 'activate' M. Could someone try some other tool? If there really is a dangling pointer, chances are that any Purify-like tool could find it. -- Xavier Nodet PGP fingerprint: EFE0 0E75 C4DC 2654 5C36 4E2D 107C 19DE 0646 1FE2 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Gadgets, caffeine, t-shirts, fun stuff. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Mahogany-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mahogany-developers
