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Re: Euphoria memory bugs

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Mar 17, 2007
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Matt Lewis wrote:
> Rob,
> 
> I was having some problems with wxEuphoria, so I ran it through valgrind
> under linux.  I was able to pretty much instantly fix a bug that I'd been
> chasing for several days.
> 
> But in doing so, I was getting some illegal reads and writes from within
> exu.  Some were from translated parts, and others from hand coded portions.
> RHS_Slice comes to mind, as well as de_reference.  It also found the 
> private_block bug you recently fixed (I was running an old binary).
> 
> I haven't logged this at sourceforge, because I haven't investigated too 
> deeply to be able to say what the problem is (it doesn't seem to cause any
> problems...yet).

That would be great if you could figure out
exactly where and why the illegal reads/writes are happening.
valgind sounds like a very useful tool for catching
those things. 

It gives me a nice clean feeling to think
of catching and removing any subtle memory bugs.  

Regards,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com