Re: efree crashes apache

This is not the right group for it. Use PHP-DEV for stuff like this. QA means Quality Assurance. See qa.php.net for more information about the QA-Team. Sander ----- Original Message ----- From: "Arne B. Olsen" <abolsen@online.no.spamremove> To: <php-qa@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 7:21 PM Subject: [PHP-QA] efree crashes apache > Hi > I dont know if this is the right group for this, but I'll give it a try : > > I'm coding an extension to php, but get a strange problem when using emalloc > and efree. > > Here is an example: > > PHP_FUNCTION(my_test) { > char *message; > message = emalloc(2048); > > another_func_filling_message(&message); > > another_funct_using_message(&message); > > /* finished, now we can free it */ > > efree(message); /* This fails */ > > } > > emalloc works, but when trying to use efree, the httpd child gets an SIGTERM > and all instances of httpd stops. > > If commenting out the efree call, httpd does not crash, but php sends and > error message to httpd's error log saying :.... Freeing 0xADDRESS (2048 > bytes), script=.... > which sounds ok... > Why does'nt it want the efree ? > I have checked that the pointer (message) is the same as the original > allocated after the two function calls using it. The two functions does not > realloc the pointer.... > > My php version is 4.0.6, and apache version 1.3.19 > > Kind regards > Arne > > > > -- > PHP Quality Assurance Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-qa-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-qa-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >