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Re: Bad free() error
by Marc Lambrichs other posts by this author
Dec 4 2004 7:04PM messages near this date
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Re: Bad free() error | Re: Bad free() error
So it's a warning of LibXSLT I shouldn't be worrying about?

$Bill Luebkert wrote:

>  Marc Lambrichs wrote:
>  
> >I've got a bad_free error on my hands. If I'm not mistaken, my module 
> >wants to free some memory space that's already been freed, right?
> >What can I do to find the exact variable that we're talking about here?
> >What does the "2912" in the following line mean?
> >
> >[Sat Dec  4 18:59:20 2004] (eval 2912): freeing transformation dictionnary
> >[Sat Dec  4 18:59:20 2004] (eval 2912): Bad free() ignored (PERL_CORE) 
> >at /var/www/general/lib/perl/Melange/Control.pm line
> >165.
>  
>  
>  I believe that's the 'eval sequence number' (which I hope I'm interpreting
>  correctly) would make it the 2912 th eval encountered in the file.
>  
>  Explanation for second error:
>  
>      Bad free() ignored
>          (S malloc) An internal routine called free() on something that had never
>          been malloc()ed in the first place. Mandatory, but can be disabled by
>          setting environment variable "PERL_BADFREE" to 0.
>  
>          This message can be seen quite often with DB_File on systems with "hard"
>          dynamic linking, like "AIX" and "OS/2". It is a bug of "Berkeley DB"
>          which is left unnoticed if "DB" uses *forgiving* system malloc().
>  
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