From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: When should ralloc.c be used? (WAS: bug#24358) Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 22:35:55 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87twe6sx2g.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> <87eg51ng4r.fsf_-_@users.sourceforge.net> <87k2djwumn.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> <83h98nidvd.fsf@gnu.org> <87eg3rvtsf.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> <83k2dihpm9.fsf@gnu.org> <8760p2wzgj.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> <838ttyhhzu.fsf@gnu.org> <871szqwu51.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> <831szqhbc2.fsf@gnu.org> <87d1itt79z.fsf_-_@users.sourceforge.net> <7baa18d4-2b09-caa8-005e-29008a383ad1@cs.ucla.edu> <83mvhwrgd5.fsf@gnu.org> <8539f38f-9a11-44c3-4de7-bb974c96206c@cs.ucla.edu> <83d1iq5ib1.fsf@gnu.org> <83r3753c8j.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1477363080 11489 195.159.176.226 (25 Oct 2016 02:38:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 02:38:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: npostavs@users.sourceforge.net, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 25 04:37:56 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1byrcM-00081y-R2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2016 04:37:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51238 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1byrcP-0001Il-2k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Oct 2016 22:37:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44526) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1byrap-0000g7-GB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Oct 2016 22:36:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1byrao-0000BA-UY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Oct 2016 22:35:59 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:33454) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1byran-00009p-Kp; Mon, 24 Oct 2016 22:35:57 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1byral-0005ng-Py; Mon, 24 Oct 2016 22:35:56 -0400 In-reply-to: <83r3753c8j.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Mon, 24 Oct 2016 20:09:32 +0300) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:208749 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > I think the way to fix those is by systematically looking at the > > source for them, rather than by debugging. > Yes, but finding out whether this is so is not easy, because the > malloc call is sometimes buried very deep. There are programs that determine call trees. We could find these problems by analyzing the output. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.