Deactivate MALLOC_CHECK_ on x86_64
Alex Fiestas
alex at eyeos.org
Fri Nov 13 15:11:57 GMT 2009
Hi
Seems that MALLOC_CHECK_ feature of glibc is kind of broken in x86_64, giving
false positives. In release mode this has no effect to the user, just when
you're running KDE in development mode, MALLOC_CHECK_ will be set at 2, which
means that malloc will abort the application when one of that false given
errors happen.
So I suggest to deactivate MALLOC_CHECK_ on 64 bits systems, at least until it
gets fixed.
Some applications that usually crash on my system are:
- digikam (I'm in digikam sprint right now and I've asked gilles and he
agrees)
- kdevelop (I'm with apol here and he's concerned about this issue too).
Everybody agrees with that?
*http://techbase.kde.org/Development/malloc_check
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