* H. S. Teoh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070510 08:26]:
> In the current binary package of ratpoison, it is possible to trigger an
> abort() by opening many tabs in Opera (www.opera.com), and hitting
> C-leftarrow, C-rightarrow (switch tabs), and C-t w repeatedly in quick
> succession. The gdb backtrace shows abort() being triggered somewhere
> inside xrealloc(), indicating some kind of memory corruption.
> However, I built a local copy of ratpoison with debugging symbols
> included, and could not trigger the bug. I rebuilt with
> dpkg-buildpackage and could not trigger the bug either. Perhaps the
> binary in the uploaded package wasn't correctly built somehow?
What architecture are you using?
Does the backtrace stop with xrealloc or does it show where this is
called?
Could you try to run it in valgrind or put a xtrace between ratpoison
and the server so I can see what opera is doing when switching tabs?
Hochachtungsvoll,
Bernhard R. Link
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