Subject: Re: FYI, trunk bootstrap segfaults with nonzero MALLOC_PERTURB_

From: Jim Meyering <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 10:44:15 +0200

Paul Eggert wrote:

> On 06/13/2012 05:06 AM, Dmitry Antipov wrote:
>
>> Not reproduced with MALLOC_PERTURB_219 and MALLOC_CHECK_=[whatever nonzero]
>> on Fedora 16 with gcc version 4.6.3 20120306 (Red Hat 4.6.3-2) and glibc
>> 2.14.90-24.fc16.7.
>>
>> Can someone try to rule out new vector allocation code with the patch attached
>> and see whether crash is affected?
>
> I have not had a chance to get to this, but am replying now (with a copy
> of your attached patch) to the bug-reporting address, so that this is
> properly filed at <http://bugs.gnu.org/11662>.

FYI, I am now using emacs bootstrapped with e.g., MALLOC_PERTURB_=48 (i.e.,
anything nonzero <= 255).  Thanks to you and Dmitry for all that cleanup work.