[gst-devel] -lmcheck

[vishnu at pobox.com]

i tried turning on glibc malloc debugging by linking with -lmcheck.
Ugh.  This is totally unacceptable.  Gstreamer needs to become
most robust!

memory clobbered before allocated block

Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
[Switching to Thread 1024 (LWP 5133)]
0x4057b881 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb) where
#0  0x4057b881 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1  0x4057b564 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6
#2  0x4057cce1 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6
#3  0x405ba1bb in __fsetlocking () from /lib/libc.so.6
#4  0x405c3413 in mcheck_check_all () from /lib/libc.so.6
#5  0x405c2fba in __default_morecore () from /lib/libc.so.6
#6  0x405c3102 in mcheck_check_all () from /lib/libc.so.6
#7  0x405c07fa in free () from /lib/libc.so.6
#8  0x4050f2de in g_free (mem=0x8183b18) at gmem.c:186
#9  0x406705c1 in g_mutex_free_posix_impl (mutex=0x8183b18) at gthread-posix.c:140
#10 0x400245c0 in gst_buffer_destroy (buffer=0x8183d38) at gstbuffer.c:305
#11 0x400248c6 in gst_buffer_unref (buffer=0x8183d38) at gstbuffer.c:422

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