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[Julian Unrrein <junrrein@xxxxxxxxx>]

Better late than never, isn't it?

Files linked against Electric Fence:
https://code.launchpad.net/~junrrein/pantheon-files/files-electricfence/

Files linked against Duma (fork of Electric Fence):
https://code.launchpad.net/~junrrein/pantheon-files/files-duma

The first one doesn't seem to load Electric Fence on execution
running. I can get efence to load dynamically (for any executable) by
running "export LD_PRELOAD=libefence.so.0.0".

Unfortunately, none of them seem to be useful. They make Files
segfault on startup the first time something from Gtk (or GLib?) is
called. I hope you find this useful anyway!

What do you think about using Valgrind (via the Valkirye GUI)?

2013/7/23, José M. Benítez <jmiguelbenitez@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi, all!
>
> I've been looking for a way to start contributing to EOS, but I haven't
> been able to find where. Maybe this is too much to start with, I don't
> know, but I could use some guidance.
>
>
>
> 2013/7/23 Manish Sinha <manishsinha@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
>> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff
>> <sergey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > First, I have to add "-lefence" to the C compiler parameters in CMake
>> and I
>> > have little idea how to do that. This will make Files segfault exactly
>> where
>> > the original corruption happens and ease debugging greatly. It's much
>> more
>> > fun than trying to track down the crashes in regular builds!
>>
>> I can give it a try
>>
>> SET(GCC_EF_COMPILE_FLAGS "-fefence")
>> SET(GCC_EF_LINK_FLAGS    "-lefence")
>>
>>
>> SET( CMAKE_C_FLAGS  "${CMAKE_C_FLAGS} ${GCC_EF_COMPILE_FLAGS}" )
>> SET( CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS  "${CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS}
>> ${GCC_EF_LINK_FLAGS}" )
>>
>> Then use LD_PRELOAD
>>
>>
>> > Second, I totally suck at OOP so I probably won't be able to fix the
>> crashes
>> > even if I track them down. Anyone up for joining me in fixing this?
>>
>> Finding is cause of the problem usually the toughest part. I can try, but
>> since my knowledge of C, memory profiling etc is limited, I can't
>> guarantee.
>>
>> -
>> Manish
>>
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