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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu_malloc failing
From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
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To: Brad Hards <bradh@frogmouth.net>
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On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 3:08 AM, Brad Hards <bradh@frogmouth.net> wrote:
> #3 =A00x000000000042b3d6 in qemu_malloc (size=3D2128) 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