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Re: interesting change

To: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>
Subject: Re: interesting change
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
Date: 30 Jul 1999 23:56:06 -0700
Cc: libc-hacker@sourceware.cygnus.com
References: <m3aesd2ybu.fsf@localhost.localnet> <19990731080219.A6381@Wotan.suse.de> <m31zdp2vne.fsf@localhost.localnet> <19990731085101.A9440@Wotan.suse.de>
Reply-To: drepper@cygnus.com (Ulrich Drepper)

Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> writes:

> 1. One of our malloc function was called before the crash in
>   a way that __libc_pagesize is not set the first time.

The value is set in a constructor which runs before any application
code.  Except if the application somehow inluences the constructors
which does not only break mallo.c

> 2. The application malloc changes pagesize ? (Don't think this
>   is possible, but ...)

No, this is not possible.

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