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Old 05-13-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by ss1969
Code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <mcheck.h>

int main (void)
{
    mtrace();

    int * p;
    p = malloc(10);
    free(p);
    free(p);
    return 0;
}

but after glibc detected "double free or corruption", the mtrace.log is still 0 bytes....nothing logged.
Why?

I think you should call,
Code:
muntrace();

only then logs will be flushed to mtrace file i think.

In your case we are not having much to log, so it won't be crossing the buffer size and nothing comes out in the file when the process crashes.

Please try with this change.

It didn't work for me as well. I am sorry.

Could you try valgrind for checking.

Last edited by kumaran_5555; 05-13-2011 at 04:10 AM..
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# 9  
Old 05-16-2011
Thank you all replied this thread.
I've found that bug, it's a memcpy() 'size' parameter too big problem. I think the memcpy action itself doesn't caused exception directly, but the following free() or some functions caused the exception and exit.

btw, the ultimate debug method is : printf & remark.

---------- Post updated at 04:25 PM ---------- Previous update was at 04:19 PM ----------

Quote:
Originally Posted by kumaran_5555
I think you should call,
Code:
muntrace();

only then logs will be flushed to mtrace file i think.

In your case we are not having much to log, so it won't be crossing the buffer size and nothing comes out in the file when the process crashes.

Please try with this change.

It didn't work for me as well. I am sorry.

Could you try valgrind for checking.
In this case, muntrace() doesn't change the result either... you can try this yourself.

I'll try valgrind, later, if I encountered same kind of bugs.

Thank you for your kindness.
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