[haiku-commits] Re: r35431 - in haiku/trunk: headers/posix src/system/libroot/posix/malloc_debug

  • From: "Michael Lotz" <mmlr@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:20:31 +0000

> On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 8:27 PM,  <mmlr@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I've written a blog post at haiku-os.org to go as documentation for 
> > this
> > introducing the API and the other helpful bits.
> 
> I suspect we should make use of malloc_debug
> when debugging weird problems in the WebKit port.

That's exactly why I've brought it up to speed. It also exposed the 
errors with aligned allocations due to it useing large aligned blocks 
for the JSC::Heap. It does detect a few things in the WebKit port, but 
sadly it's not exactly easy to find the actual issues from there...

Regards
Michael

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