On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > > I can't really say whether there are other problems too - electric fence 
> > > has a few bugs in that it considers zero-length allocations to be 
> > > "probably a bug" and aborts. This makes some of the tests fail with 
> > > efence, when re_compile_internal wants to allocate a zero-length object.
> > 
> > You can tell it not to abort on zero-length allocations by setting the 
> > EF_ALLOW_MALLOC_0 environment variable to 1.
> 
> Ahh,that gets me further, but then it bombs out on the added error 
> messages. Is there something for that braindamage too?

The efence man page doesn't mention any.


Nicolas
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