[Skip Montanaro <skip.montan...@gmail.com>] > I've got a memory issue in my modified Python interpreter I'm trying > to debug. Output at the end of the problematic unit test looks like this:
To my eyes, you left out the most important part ;-) A traceback showing who made the fatal free() call to begin with. In debug mode, allocations are padded on both ends with various stuff: FORBIDDENBYTEs (0xfd), a count of the number of bytes originally requested, and a serial number incremented by 1 each time alloc/realloc is called. The memory you requested is entirely filled with CLEANBYTEs ()xcd). On deallocation, that stuff is checked (that's where your run is dying), and the memory is filled with DEADBYTEs (0xdd) (a weak but nevertheless often effective way to detect "double free"s). Now in your case, absolutely every byte shown is 0x00. There are no useful clues at all remaining. It's not just a short buffer overrun, _everything_ has been NULLed out, including before the requested memory. So something has gone nuts spraying 0 all over memory ... or the pointer passed to free() was nonsense to begin with. If it were a case of double free, we'd usually expect to see some DEADBYTEs in the debug output. But there weren't any. However, you did not get any output from tracemalloc, despite that it sounds like you set up the right magic to activate it. Which leans toward the "complete nonsense" hypothesis. If tracemalloc doesn't find the address in its dict of currently-allocated addresses, looks like it fails silently, simply not producing any output. Which is what you're experiencing. So where was free() called and what was passed to it? All the evidence is consistent with the idea that what was passed to free() was never obtained from a malloc or reallloc call to begin with. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/A32E5ZVJ4IZBNDHMLOXH2OOAB2CKAYJN/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
