GNU bug report logs - #9273
23.3; malloc initialization should (sometimes) happen at runtime

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>

Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 20:12:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 23.3

Done: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
Cc: 9273 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9273: 23.3; malloc initialization should (sometimes) happen at runtime
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 09:54:14 +0300

> Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 17:45:41 -0400
> From: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
> CC: "9273 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <9273 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
> 
> The problem was that realloc got called on memory that had been 
> allocated prior to dumping, and the malloc information that was used 
> then had disappeared.

Can you show the code which called realloc on that memory?  I'm
surprised that Emacs does that, but perhaps I'm missing something.
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