From: Arthur Gold <agold@bga.com>
To: help-gcc@gnu.org
Subject: Re: gcc-gethostbyaddr memory leak
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 22:24:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <385061B9.32462CBA@bga.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <19991231222400.sUzdH3Cf0LownQDGm5zTqpqthZG_86i4PRTPm7oESzc@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <82peet$l1r$1@perki.connect.com.au>
Andrew Wallace wrote:
>
> I hope this is the correct list, this looks like a gcc problem. I don't think
> it's a programming question.
Actually, IIRC it's a glibc problem...tht I think is fixed in 2.1.2.
HTH,
--ag
>
> The following code leaks when it is passed an address that it cannot find. If
> anybody has any suggestions I would appreciate any help.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew
>
> System info:
> gcc version 2.95.1 19990816
> Linux Redhat v6.0, I'm sorry I can't find the kernel version
>
> // simple program to demo the leak in gethostbyaddr when a
> // name is not found
>
> #include <netdb.h>
> #include <sys/socket.h>
> #include <errno.h>
> #include <netinet/in.h>
> #include <arpa/inet.h>
>
> char* GetAddrName(char* clean_address)
> {
> static int init_state;
> struct in_addr ip;
>
> if (inet_aton(clean_address, &ip))
> {
> struct hostent* hostinfo = gethostbyaddr((char*)&ip, sizeof(ip), AF_INET);
>
> if (hostinfo)
> return hostinfo->h_name;
>
> if (h_errno != 1) // display anything but HOST NOT FOUND
> printf("ERROR: gethostbyaddr (%s,%d)(%s,%d)(%s)\n",
> hstrerror(h_errno), h_errno, strerror(errno), errno, clean_address);
>
> } // if
>
> else
> printf("ERROR: address seems invalid: %s\n", clean_address);
>
> return NULL;
> }
>
> int main(int argc, char** argv)
> {
> int x;
> char buff[124];
>
> for (x = 0; x < 50000; x++)
> {
> sprintf(buff,"%d.%d.%d.%d",210,10,3, (random()%254) + 1);
>
> printf("%-20.20s %s\n", GetAddrName(buff), buff);
> if (!(x % 100))
> sleep(1);
> }
> }
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1999-12-09 15:37 Andrew Wallace
1999-12-09 18:14 ` Arthur Gold [this message]
1999-12-31 22:24 ` Arthur Gold
1999-12-31 22:24 ` Andrew Wallace
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