[vorbis-dev] Re: Re: [fwd] Ogg123 crash report on EV4 Multia

[Bill Nottingham]

Monty (xiphmont at xiph.org) said: 
> > It dies identically on an alpha in testing here, and on ia64 as
> > well - it's corrupting memory somewhere. I'm guessing *something*
> > is using longs when it really wants int32s, but I haven't tracked
> > down what yet.
> 
> ...or more possibly int/long/float when it means int*/long*/float*.
> There was one such slipup found last week.
>  
> Do you have electric fence handy?  That's usually the easiest place to start.

Tried, didn't help too much. However, using glibc's internal malloc
checking, it aborts the program at info.c:252
        ci->book_param[i] = _ogg_calloc(1, sizeof(static_codebook));
the third time it's called. That's at least where it first
detects that something is screwed up in the memory pool.

Bill

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