GlibC "fix" broke Evolution 1.4.6 on FC2

Ulrich Drepper drepper at redhat.com
Fri Nov 12 05:51:52 UTC 2004


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Temlakos wrote:

> I filed a report to Bugzilla.Ximian.com, and they said (a) "it's the
> same thing we've seen before," and (b) "it's not our fault; there's some
> memory corruption going on somewhere." They mentioned the "libc" file at
> some point in their correspondence on this issue.

Memory corruptions are highly unlikely _caused_ by glibc.  The malloc
functions will easily crash due to memory corruption but this does not
mean there is a bug in glibc.  Every glibc change has the potential to
bring out new bugs; if objects are laid out differently in memory,
buffer overruns will affect different regions and the newly written to
ones might be more sensitive.

You'll have to determine what these vague statements you got really mean.

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