On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 08:59:57AM -0700, Al Chu wrote: ,---- | > - Several *_commit functions in bmc-sol-conf-section.c used to | > free the kv->value before actually parsing it, resulting in | > the actual parameter being set to 0. | | ARGH! This code worked on another machine. I suppose the | randomness of the compile/memory usage would allow the value read | from the invalid pointer to still be correct for other machines. `---- Memory de-allocation routines usually don't take extra effort to destroy the content. They just de-reference the pointer.
In this case, because the free'd pointer is referenced immediately, it never faulted. Compilers usually can't see these bugs. I will use some memory debuggers to catch such errors and report soon. -- Albert Chu [EMAIL PROTECTED] 925-422-5311 Computer Scientist High Performance Systems Division Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-devel mailing list Freeipmi-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-devel ---end quoted text--- -- Anand Babu GPG Key ID: 0x62E15A31 Blog [http://ab.freeshell.org] The GNU Operating System [http://www.gnu.org] _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-devel mailing list Freeipmi-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-devel
