[torquedev] OS X outstanding issues

[Glen Beane]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Glen Beane <glen.beane at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Garrick <garrick at usc.edu> wrote:
>> For wordexp, could the problem be tested on configure?  Can you make a small
>> C program that can fail?
>
> What do you mean by fail?  I can make a very short C program that
> exhibits the problem. It shouldn't print anything, but on Leopard you
> get all kinds of error messages to stderr (see below).
>
> #include <wordexp.h>
>
> int main (int *argc, char **argv)
> {
> wordexp_t  strexp;
> char str[] = "/~";
>
> wordexp(str, &strexp, WRDE_UNDEF);
> wordfree(&strexp);
>
> return 0;
> }
>
>
> there should be no output of this program, but instead you get
> something like this:
>
>
> a.out(342) malloc: *** error for object 0xf: Non-aligned pointer being freed
> *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
> a.out(342) malloc: *** error for object 0x20000: pointer being freed
> was not allocated
...


and here is a backtrace

Breakpoint 1, 0x930a84a9 in malloc_error_break ()
(gdb) where
#0  0x930a84a9 in malloc_error_break ()
#1  0x930a3497 in szone_error ()
#2  0x92fcd463 in szone_free ()
#3  0x92fcd2cd in free ()
#4  0x9305ca0f in wordfree ()
#5  0x00001ff0 in main (argc=0x1, argv=0xbffff834) at blah.c:9