Re: [PATCH] MALLOC_CHECK: Allow checking to be disabled from config.mak

Elia Pinto wrote:

2012/10/6 Junio C Hamano [off-list ref]:

quoted

Ramsay Jones [off-list ref] writes:
Elia, you brought the MALLOC_CHECK_ up.  Did you hear about this
issue elsewhere before, and if you did, do you know how other
projects solves it?

Ok. I have found. For me this is not a problem any more these days.
Was fixed in glibc 2.8.90-9 2008

* Wed Jul 16 2008 Jakub Jelinek [off-list ref] 2.8.90-9
- update from trunk
  - fix unbuffered vfprintf if writing to the stream fails (#455360)
  - remove useless "malloc: using debugging hooks" message (#455355)
  - nscd fixes
(from glibc rpm changelog)

This is the bugzilla filled and closed
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=455355

Ramsay, what version of glibc you have and in what distro? thanks

The glibc version is 2.5, if I believe the changelog, along with:

    ramsay$ ls -l /lib/libc.so.6
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2007-06-24 19:44 /lib/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.5.so*
    ramsay$ 

... but the header files tell a different story:

    ramsay$ grep 'define     __GLIBC_' /usr/include/features.h
    #define __GLIBC__       2
    #define __GLIBC_MINOR__ 4
    ramsay$ 

The distro is Ubuntu (but I can't remember which version; I would have
to re-boot to find out so ...).

HTH

ATB,
Ramsay Jones