On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 11:55 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:07:04 +0100, I wrote:
> Fedora 12 with LD_PRELOAD=libefence.so.0.0 EF_ALLOW_MALLOC_0=1, what is
> more likely that these are false positives or real bugs?
It's hard to find GNOME/GTK apps that don't crash. One that works fine
in efence is "gnome-about".
Many non-GUI tools also pass. procps's w doesn't, and that's not a false
positive:
$ w
Electric Fence 2.2.2 Copyright (C) 1987-1999 Bruce Perens <bruce(a)perens.com>
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
==> setlocale() usage bug,
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/548711
$ eog
Electric Fence 2.2.2 Copyright (C) 1987-1999 Bruce Perens <bruce(a)perens.com>
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
==> in ORBit corba-any.c once more
All the GNOME apps that use GConf or ORBit will fail because you need to
set the alignment to 8. Same problem under valgrind.