Re: [gnome-love] Help - libc hooks

[Yu Feng <rainwoodman gmail com>]

On Sat, 2008-05-24 at 22:14 +0300, Andrei Soare wrote:
> On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Yu Feng <rainwoodman gmail com>
> wrote:
>         No there is a bug in free_size.c (at least).
>         You didn't solve the conflict in addH.
>
> What conflict ? i think addH is ok.
>  

Yes it is OK. I didn't notice the link list.


>         Why not rewrite free_size.c with GLib's GHashTable?
>
> I didn't know it exists :P but now that i've wrtten my own hash, I'll
> leave it. 
That's fine. 
> I found the problem: it was in my_malloc_hook.c, when i printed a NULL
> pointer, it would print "(nil)" in the file and then free_size reads
> "(nil)" with %p and it's not NULL. I fixed it, however I encounter
> another error:
>
> I run the hooks with LD_PREOAD=/path/to/my_malloc_hook.so pidgin and
> sometimes I get Segmentation Fault after about 10 seconds of
> execution. So there is still something wrong with my_malloc_hook.c
> Do you know what it could be ?
Thread safety?
> Thank you for your help :)
>
> -- 
> Andrei Soare