From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
To: Brad Hards <bradh@frogmouth.net>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu_malloc failing
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 07:41:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTiksT24cF1RO5s+3hzkMq1nFeZuYvA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201104101208.55243.bradh@frogmouth.net>
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 3:08 AM, Brad Hards <bradh@frogmouth.net> wrote:
> #3 0x000000000042b3d6 in qemu_malloc (size=2128) at qemu-malloc.c:49
It's only slightly more than 2 KB. When malloc(3) fails it returns
NULL, it doesn't crash.
As Mulyadi suggested, this looks like heap corruption. If you have no
idea where the problem is coming from, you might like to try
valgrind(1).
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-10 6:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-10 2:08 [Qemu-devel] qemu_malloc failing Brad Hards
2011-04-10 4:45 ` Mulyadi Santosa
2011-04-10 6:41 ` Stefan Hajnoczi [this message]
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