Electric Fence?

[Robert Graham Merkel]

On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 14:32:22 Derek Atkins wrote:
> Has anyone (else) recently tried using Electric Fence to
> debug memory problems with Gnucash?  I just tried, and it
> ran out of memory on my 256M linux box, even with 500M
> of swap.  EF, with no EF vars set, gave me an mmap() failed
> error (exit code 0377) as it was trying to bring up the
> main window.
> 
> So, has anyone else tried using EF to debug Gnucash?  I
> think there is a memory corruption problem, but I can't
> tell if it's my code, gnome/gtk, or Gnucash in general.
> Basically, the bug I'm seeing is that a bug of GtkWidgets
> are getting corrupted in one of my dialog windows.  I'm
> expecting it's a bug in my own code, but I'm having trouble
> tracking it down (let alone reproducing it).
> 
> I'm currently building on a Sparc/Solaris box so I can
> attempt to use purify, hoping that will help.  I'll definitely
> let you know, but I was wondering if anyone else has tried?
> 

I've tried, with a similar setup to your Linux box, and run into
the same problem.  EF, by its nature, only works for big programs
if you have enormous expanses of memory to spare.


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Robert Merkel	                           rgmerk@mira.net

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