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From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
To: Khoo Yit Phang <khooyp@cs.umd.edu>
Cc: Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com>, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Disable -lmcheck when Python has threads (Re: [BUG] gdb crash when "python import gtk")
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 16:05:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120830160438.GA25469@host2.jankratochvil.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A681786A-58A1-41E6-8410-8EBD8330E6BE@cs.umd.edu>

Hi,

On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 18:00:46 +0200, Khoo Yit Phang wrote:
> I ran into a similar issue as below and tracked it down: the "memory
> clobbered before allocated block" (and other related messages) because
> -lmcheck is not thread safe, and triggers spuriously when threads are used
> in Python (e.g., the "gtk" module).

this needs some references to glibc/gtk/python maintainers statements etc.

-lmcheck is AFAIK thread safe in glibc itself.

It seems to me rather that python and/or gtk may have some bugs exposed by
-lmcheck.  Could you provide a reproducer (with proper versions of all
components and OS) of the problematic behavior?


Thanks,
Jan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-08-30 16:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-19  5:26 [BUG] gdb crash when "python import gtk" Hui Zhu
2012-07-19  7:16 ` Hui Zhu
2012-07-19  7:21   ` Phil Muldoon
2012-07-19  7:40   ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-07-19  7:54     ` Hui Zhu
     [not found]     ` <A681786A-58A1-41E6-8410-8EBD8330E6BE@cs.umd.edu>
2012-08-30 16:05       ` Jan Kratochvil [this message]
2012-08-30 16:07         ` Disable -lmcheck when Python has threads (Re: [BUG] gdb crash when "python import gtk") Jan Kratochvil
2012-08-30 16:09         ` Khoo Yit Phang
2012-08-30 16:11           ` Khoo Yit Phang
2012-08-30 16:41             ` Khoo Yit Phang
2012-09-06 19:30             ` Tom Tromey

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