[Pkg-gmagick-im-team] Bug#668075: imagemagick fails with Electric Fence memory debugger

Mikulas Patocka mikulas at artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz
Sun Apr 8 19:11:43 UTC 2012


On Sun, 8 Apr 2012, Vincent Fourmond wrote:

> tag 668075 unreproducible
> thanks
> 
>   Hello again,
> 
>   I've had the time to play with a squeeze chroot, and the memory
> problem you mention isn't detected by either the glibc library or
> valgrind. Are you sure this isn't some sort of artifact of
> ElectricFence ?
> 
>   Cheers,
> 
>       Vincent

I actually find out that it is caused by Electric Fence not catching the 
posix_memalign function (so memory allocated with posix_memalign and 
freed with free is reported as invalid). So you can close this bug.

Mikulas





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