Re: [gtk-gnutella-devel] Code-freezing git "devel" for 0.98.3

[Alex <al...@be...>]

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 08:07:38AM +0200, Raphael Manfredi wrote:
> Despite the known latent memory bugs, I have decided to code-freeze the
> current git "devel" branch and make it a candidate release.
> 
> There are two main memory bugs that I know of: a huge memory leak (only
> witnessed by one person, systematicallu) and a random malloc() freelist
> corruption that happens from time to time.

I hope I'm not suggesting something you already know but have you
given Valgrind a go? I tend to track their SVN but they have just
released a new version in the last few months. Aside from the default
memcheck tool there are also massif (heap profiling) and sgcheck
(stack and array overrun) worth running.

> Please make sure to grab the latest "devel" branch and test it thoroughly
> if you can recompile your gtk-gnutella.  I'm planning to release at the
> beginning of June, in roughly two weeks.  Changes to "devel" will now be
> limited to bug fixes, no new features.
> 
> Thanks for your support during this testing phase, especially on 64-bit
> platforms and on Windows, which I don't easily have access to.

Will do...

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