From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
To: Emacs development discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: please set both MALLOC_PERTURB_ and MALLOC_CHECK_ envvars
Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 23:50:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874o4fx17z.fsf@rho.meyering.net> (raw)
Now, bootstrapping emacs on Fedora 15 x86_64
(with env settings as below) fails with a segfault.
If you develop emacs, or even if you just build from sources regularly,
on a glibc-based system, do us all a favor and build with these envvar
settings:
export MALLOC_PERTURB_=$((RANDOM % 255 + 1))
export MALLOC_CHECK_=3
Why? Because that helps you expose malloc-related problems far earlier.
I've found numerous bugs that way. The trouble is that you have to
be ready to debug, or at least ready to retry with
env MALLOC_PERTURB_=0 MALLOC_CHECK_=0 make ...
to see if things work better without protection.
Until recently, I've been building like this to work around
a problem that I traced back to a commit in emacs several years ago:
make bootstrap RUN_TEMACS='MALLOC_CHECK_=0 ./temacs'
However, today, even with that, make bootstrap is failing with a
segfault (in various places) that goes away when I turn off malloc
robustness checking via both variables for the whole process
and not just one of them when running temacs:
MALLOC_PERTURB_=0 MALLOC_CHECK_=0 make bootstrap
That suggests a very recent change (within the last 24 hrs)
makes emacs act to differently when MALLOC_PERTURB_=N causes glibc
to scribble nonzero (N) bytes into each just freed buffer.
next reply other threads:[~2011-05-27 21:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-27 21:50 Jim Meyering [this message]
2011-05-27 21:57 ` please set both MALLOC_PERTURB_ and MALLOC_CHECK_ envvars Jim Meyering
2011-05-28 0:13 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2011-05-28 18:52 ` Jim Meyering
2011-05-30 10:30 ` Jim Meyering
2011-05-30 17:49 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-05-28 20:19 ` Chong Yidong
2011-05-28 20:33 ` Jim Meyering
2011-05-29 5:44 ` Paul Eggert
2011-05-29 7:32 ` Jim Meyering
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