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From: Adhemerval Zanella Netto <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] malloc: Simplify implementation of __malloc_assert
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 10:40:11 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <67d80a43-c65a-b9db-af46-c73562e6c5b2@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ilnq38cs.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com>



On 21/07/22 10:26, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Adhemerval Zanella Netto:
> 
>>> +  __libc_message (do_abort, "\
>>> +Fatal glibc error: malloc assertion failure in %s: %s\n",
>>> +		  function, assertion);
>>> +  __builtin_unreachable ();
>>>  }
>>>  #endif
>>>  #endif
>>>
>>
>> Would be better to keep the the file and line information?  
> 
> I would have to figure out how to use _itoa correctly. 8-/

Yeah, it is not the best interface indeed.

> 
> I think we converted almost all asserts that are reachable through heap
> corruption into malloc_printerr a couple of years ago, so the diagnostic
> value of the line number will be really low.  That's why I had to resort
> to GDB to test this.
> 
> Do you insist that I add file and line number information?

I think it should be ok, what bothers me is we need to reimplement the
assert macro for malloc usage.

  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-21 13:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-21 10:34 Florian Weimer
2022-07-21 11:43 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2022-07-21 12:36   ` Carlos O'Donell
2022-07-21 13:10 ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2022-07-21 13:24   ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2022-07-21 13:28     ` Florian Weimer
2022-07-21 13:26   ` Florian Weimer
2022-07-21 13:40     ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto [this message]
2022-07-22 11:38       ` Florian Weimer

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