Re: New RCorder: abi loaded too late

Jason Evans wrote:
> Doug Barton wrote:
>> PS to jasone, the trace on the core file shows that the error in
>> rcorder is
>> at line 761 of rcorder.c (which was recently patched to fix a
>> different kind
>> of core dumping problem). I'd be glad to provide you or the list with
>> more
>> details if there is interest.
> 
> Chances are good that the crash is due to a double free.  If you have
> trouble tracking this down, you can try reducing the size of the delay
> cache (MALLOC_OPTIONS='cccccccc' will reduce the delay cache to one
> item), which may cause a different failure mode that is easier to
> interpret.

That actually caused it not to fail, which arguably is more difficult to
interpret. :) I tried backing off the number of c's, but it didn't dump core
until I got all the way down to zero again, then I got a core with the same
backtrace as before.

FYI,

Doug

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