On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Christoffer Haglund <
[email protected]> wrote:

>  That's interesting. This what Memcheck tells me about the application that
> crashes:
>
> $ valgrind --leak-check=full --show-reachable=yes --track-origins=yes
> ./unittest_t9write -r api -o api.xml
> ==19513== Memcheck, a memory error detector
> ==19513== Copyright (C) 2002-2009, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
> ==19513== Using Valgrind-3.6.0.SVN-Debian and LibVEX; rerun with -h for
> copyright info
> ==19513== Command: ./unittest_t9write -r api -o api.xml
> ==19513==
>
> This is t9write unit test runner, compiled with: -Wall -Wextra -ansi
> -pedantic -O3
>
> No errors.
>
> ==19513==
> ==19513== HEAP SUMMARY:
> ==19513==     in use at exit: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
> ==19513==   total heap usage: 1,050,205 allocs, 1,050,205 frees,
> 268,688,656 bytes allocated
> ==19513==
> ==19513== All heap blocks were freed -- no leaks are possible
> ==19513==
> ==19513== For counts of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -v
> ==19513== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 4 from 4)
>
>
> So Memcheck does not find any overwrites, but that's likely the problem
> anyway; using GDB I can see that the segfault occurs inside a loop that's
> basically a memset:
>
>     for ( ; n > 0; n-- )
>         *intPtr++ = value;
>
> Now, I haven't checked out exactly what instructions are generated, and I
> probably won't unless anyone finds this interesting or think it looks like a
> Memcheck bug :-)
>

Does intPtr point to an array or to dynamically allocated memory ?

Bart.
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