Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/06/06/10:39:32
On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Thomas Baker wrote:
> Just wanted to report that I was seeing error messages such as the
> following in Korn shell scripts:
>
> /home/tbaker/u/bin/urlists[50]: internal error: alloc: freeing
> memory outside of block (corrupted?)
>
> By running the scripts in debug mode (set -x), I found that
> the problem seemed to occur when declared functions (i.e.,
> declared within the script) were invoked multiple times.
> The functions would work at first, then stop working --
> as if the functions somehow ate up the available memory.
>
> Since rolling back from 5.2.14-3 to 5.2.14-2, the problem
> seems to have gone away.
>
> I am not a programmer and do not have time to test this
> systematically but thought others on this list might want
> to hear about this.
Thanks for the report. However:
I have no hope of reproducing this, do I?
AFAICS, the few changes from 5.2.14-2 to 5.2.14-3 that could have possibly
caused this are the fixes in the autoconf files. I doubt the "struct
option" magic would matter, but it's possible, I guess, though by
eyeballing the code the two versions do look functionally equivalent.
It would help to have a script that demonstrates the problem. I can't do
anything otherwise, sorry...
Igor Pechtchanski, the Cygwin pdksh volunteer maintainer
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