interesting change

Ulrich Drepper drepper@cygnus.com
Sat Jul 31 00:00:00 GMT 1999


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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