Can you give me some hints on using 6!:5?

I don't see any comments on jtpeekdata, and I haven't visualized what
I'd be looking for, nor when, for that matter.

I got the 0xdeadbeef stuff running MEMAUDIT=0xd.

I was running MEMAUDIT=0xff overnight, to see if I could catch the
problem earlier, but my machine rebooted. I don't know if that was
windows update or if that was some other issue. I'll give it another
shot.

Basically, though, this isn't a problem which I've figured out a good
way of triggering, so it's slow going.

-- 
Raul


On Fri, Nov 3, 2023 at 6:18 AM Henry Rich <henryhr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Set MEMAUDIT and 6!:5 to see where the free chain is corrupted.
>
> hhr
>
> On Thu, Nov 2, 2023, 3:32 PM Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > This is turning out to be more difficult than I had anticipated.
> >
> > I've modified jtxplus to use mpn_add (and mpn_sub and a macro
> > workalike for the inlined mpn_neg, which in turn uses mpn_com -
> > necessary because the mpn_ family of routines works on unsigned limb
> > sequences). And, it *mostly* works.
> >
> > However, when running script/testga.sh, I encounter a double free problem.
> >
> > My current best guess is that somewhere I'm relying on a container
> > test (XNUM/RAT) instead of relying on the ISGMP() test. But I looked
> > through m.c and I'm not seeing anything there that looks plausible.
> >
> > I did notice that the frgmp() macro is not referenced anywhere, and I
> > used the corresponding fr() macro in my implementation rather than
> > mf() - but if that's an issue, I need a better understanding of this
> > part of the internal api.
> >
> > So... anyways... before I dig this hole too deep, I figure I should
> > ask for advice on how to proceed.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --
> > Raul
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 3:12 AM Henry Rich <henryhr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > OK, I see now.  The implementation using low-level GMP would be more
> > > parallel with Roger's original version, right?
> > >
> > > That would end up being simpler than having reserve memory, as well as
> > > stabler.
> > >
> > > Since you currently mark blocks that are to be freed by GMP, you could
> > > make this change piecemeal, right?  When you rewrite addition to use the
> > > low-level routines, you mark the blocks allocated by addition as J not
> > > GMP, and everything else follows automatically.
> > >
> > > Tbat's a great idea.
> > >
> > > hhr
> > >
> > > On 10/24/2023 8:34 PM, Raul Miller wrote:
> > > > libzahl is not thread safe, and even if it was, it's not clear to me
> > > > that it adequately supports enough architectures.
> > > >
> > > > Meanwhile, libgmp's problems are addressable. I just have to use a
> > > > different part of its API.
> > > >
> > > > (Also, on windows, we're using mpir rather than libgmp.)
> > > >
> > > > (J currently uses parts of the libgmp high level API, which performs
> > > > memory allocations within the libgmp library routines, using callbacks
> > > > whose implementation I supply. But it also exposes the low level
> > > > routines used to build those high level routines, and those low level
> > > > routines do not perform memory allocation, which means that we can
> > > > manage the memory outside of the API.)
> > > >
> > > > ((The problem with libgmp's high level API is that if a memory
> > > > allocation fails, it exits the program. So we came up with a
> > > > workaround which reserves a memory pool, and limits arguments to
> > > > certain routines, so successful memory allocations will succeed even
> > > > under low memory conditions. That's not ideal, but it has been "good
> > > > enough, so far". But libgmp supports another approach. It's a little
> > > > more work, but not an excessive amount of work.))
> > > >
> > > > I hope this makes sense,
> > > >
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