From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: filerz-emacs@yahoo.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Crash in handling tar files (Was: GDB debugger mode for Emacs in ELPA) Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:33:05 +0530 (IST) Message-ID: <307977.15218.qm@web95005.mail.in2.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1214571815 26658 80.91.229.12 (27 Jun 2008 13:03:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:03:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Angelo Graziosi , Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 27 15:04:18 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KCDcT-0005bQ-KS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:04:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52282 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KCDbd-00054T-Q2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:03:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KCDba-00054O-5R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:03:10 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KCDbZ-00054B-4I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:03:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45781 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KCDbZ-000548-0e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:03:09 -0400 Original-Received: from n2a.bullet.in.yahoo.com ([202.43.219.19]:25715) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KCDbY-0007EV-4x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:03:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [202.86.4.170] by n2.bullet.in.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 27 Jun 2008 13:03:05 -0000 Original-Received: from [203.104.18.55] by t1.bullet.in.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 27 Jun 2008 13:03:05 -0000 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp107.mail.in2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 27 Jun 2008 13:03:05 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 508704.52135.bm@omp107.mail.in2.yahoo.com Original-Received: (qmail 15525 invoked by uid 60001); 27 Jun 2008 13:03:05 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=hTZgG8ONYpxtB4ugA1pGVHYcnUliyTBXEklOt3QJOFzlkD8Zgo1bUKVoLLixElqM+7otqtm9NxIK8pHbVjOPG93HQhRs/wfolhjFNLAhkhuaatKp9G0sNwYCFGsQPWZLQy6pFRAHMeRUfWRDmE7y0MAHbmHjHAJO7CP97SRx3r8=; Original-Received: from [202.3.112.9] by web95005.mail.in2.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:33:05 IST X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/975.49 YahooMailWebService/0.7.199 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:100041 Archived-At: Hello,=0A=0A----- Original Message ----=0A> From: Angelo Graziosi =0A=0A> Could the crash discussed in this thread be relate= d to that, [1], we =0A> discussed longly and which still happens on Cygwin?= =0A=0AFrom the trace, it does appear quite similar. I am now looking into t= he code. The problem seems to be that a call to realloc is not able to loca= te the pointer as allocated by it earlier. I did debug and stepped through = the code. I am planning to log all allocations, re-allocations and free to = see what is happening.=0A=0A-dhruva=0A=0A=0A=0A Did you know? You can = CHAT without downloading messenger. Go to http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/web= messengerpromo.php/