Re: [Lynx-dev] 2.8.6dev.10

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Thorsten Glaser wrote:

> Dixi:
>
> > Thomas Dickey dixit:
> >
> > > 2005-01-02 (2.8.6dev.10)
> >
> > You rock!
> >
> > It works, and is now in MirOS CVS -HEAD. All the problems I had with
> > spurious newlines and stuff are vanished.
>
> I however must correct myself:
>
> HTTP/1.0 200 OKlynx in free(): error: chunk is already free
>                                                           Abort (core dumped)

Is this for a URL that I could test (and reproduce)?

> Trying to debug this (with a gdb running in the OpenBSD emulation,
> not natively since I haven't got my ass up to port gdb to MirOS
> again) I can only find that ProPolice, the gcc stack protector,
> has terminated Lynx due to a corrupt stack frame, somewhere.
>
> I'm somehow puzzled as how to debug this further though.
>
> I'll try with find-leaks on, because this changes free() to something
> different, and look at my diffs against stock lynx again.

That might help.  Generally I'm using valgrind (instead).

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