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

[Monty]

On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 02:33:06PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 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.

Ah!  I think I got it: an _ogg_malloc(sizeof(float)... where I meant
_ogg_malloc(sizeof(long)...

I'll bet that long is 64 bit and float is still 32.  Committing fix
now.  Very odd that electric fence would not have seen that though.

Monty

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