Re: Abort at program end

[Bowie Owens <bowie owens csiro au>]

Marc Siegel wrote:

> Here is a backtrace from a crash of a client talking to a server on 
> the same PC (the client is the one that crashes).
>
> ** ERROR **: file orbit-object.c: line 147 (do_unref): assertion 
> failed: (robj->refs < ORBIT_REFCOUNT_MAX && robj->refs > 0)
> aborting...
This error indicates that there were too many unref's on a stub object.

> This error only occurs with ORBit-cpp, things work fine on MICO and TAO.
I found them to be a bit more forgiving too. To fix the problem you need 
to track down where the extra unref's are occuring. The abort at the end 
of the program is too far after the fact. Valgrind is also useful for 
tracking problems down. The C++ stubs are new'ed and then deleted in 
_duplicate and release. So if you have a leak or a double free then that 
is definitely going to mess up the reference counting. If you can show 
that orbitcpp is non-compliant, I'll definitely fix it.

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