Re: [Help-smalltalk] Memory leak

[Paolo Bonzini]

Gwenael Casaccio wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've launched gst with vallgrind :
> 
> ==8918== Memcheck, a memory error detector.
> ==8918== Copyright (C) 2002-2007, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
> ==8918== Using LibVEX rev 1854, a library for dynamic binary translation.
> ==8918== Copyright (C) 2004-2007, and GNU GPL'd, by OpenWorks LLP.       
> ==8918== Using valgrind-3.3.1-Debian, a dynamic binary instrumentation 
> framework.
> ==8918== Copyright (C) 2000-2007, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.      
>    
> ==8918== For more details, rerun with: -v                                     
>    
> ==8918==
> --8918-- DWARF2 CFI reader: unhandled CFI instruction 0:10
> --8918-- DWARF2 CFI reader: unhandled CFI instruction 0:10
> ==8918== Warning: set address range perms: large range 268435456 (defined)
> ==8918== Invalid write of size 8
> ==8918==    at 0x4E5398B: alloc_symlink (sym.c:1410)
> ==8918==    by 0x4E53A90: intern_counted_string (sym.c:1442)
> ==8918==    by 0x4E538CC: _gst_intern_string (sym.c:1387)
> ==8918==    by 0x4E55E27: add_file_stream_object (dict.c:1249)
> ==8918==    by 0x4E55229: init_runtime_objects (dict.c:1109)
> ==8918==    by 0x4E5614F: _gst_init_dictionary_on_image_load (dict.c:1333)
> ==8918==    by 0x4E8B2D7: load_snapshot (save.c:505)
> ==8918==    by 0x4E8B143: _gst_load_from_file (save.c:451)
> ==8918==    by 0x4E3C5F9: _gst_initialize (files.c:494)
> ==8918==    by 0x4E3B548: gst_initialize (gstpub.c:142)
> ==8918==    by 0x401806: main (main.c:380)
> ==8918==  Address 0x351e9dd0 is not stack'd, malloc'd or (recently) free'd

It is a mmaped address.  It is a bug in valgrind, can you report it?

Paolo