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RE: Bug identified [was RE: perl - segfault on "free unused scalar"]


On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Dave Korn wrote:

> ----Original Message----
> >From: Igor Pechtchanski
> >Sent: 28 July 2005 14:58
>
> > Hmm, but shouldn't this code fail regardless of the value of
> > heap_chunk_in_mb?  Why does increasing heap_chunk_in_mb make this
> > succeed?
>
>   Perhaps it only makes it succeed if you increase heap_chunk_in_mb
> until that initial heap chunk is big enough?  Perhaps just because the
> memory map gets re-arranged and dll_list::alloc manages to find a page
> in between the dll and the heap?  You could always check it out in a
> debugger if you like; I've got to leave this for the moment because I
> was doing that in my lunchbreak, which is long over now :-(

Dave,

I'm unfortunately not set up to do this kind of debugging ATM (heavy use
of Cygwin for real work, and no other available machine, so can't play
with heap_chunk_in_mb).  That's why I appreciate your doing this.  If you
are interested in pursuing this later, it would be nice to find out how
this behavior relates to the value of heap_chunk_in_mb.
	Igor
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