Package: libxml2 Version: 2.7.6.dfsg-1 Severity: normal Having had some trouble trying to use xmlListSort, I took a look at the implementation. It seems to work by copying the original list, clearing the original list, and then inserting each element from the copy into the original. Apart from inefficiency, this has one major bug: clearing the original list calls the user-supplied deallocator on each element, making those elements unusable in the copy. This resulted in accesses to freed memory, easily found via valgrind.
- Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages libxml2 depends on: ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime Versions of packages libxml2 recommends: ii xml-core 0.12 XML infrastructure and XML catalog libxml2 suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
