Re: [Valgrind-users] Assertion 'eltSzB <= ddpa->poolSzB' failed

[Philippe W. <phi...@sk...>]

On Fri, 2016-02-05 at 11:20 +0100, David Hallas wrote:


> thanks for the reply. I tried increasing the SEGINFO_STRPOOLSIZE as
> you requested, and for me the magic number is 268*1024 then the assert
> goes away :) I also tried to add the print to the ML_(addStr) function
> in storage.c but for some reason I never see the print?
Strange. VG_(printf) prints unconditionally.
> 
> I tried to play with objdump and nm to find some large symbols, but I
> think I do not have enough objdump/nm skills to do that. But I also
> tried to play with strings and I found one string (a symbol name) that
> is 274154 bytes long (this fits perfectly with that I see the problem
> if the SEGINFO_STRPOOLSIZE is 267*1024 but not with 268*1024). The
> code that I am debugging is using a lot of templates, so go figure ;)
> So I think it sounds very plausible that it is this string that is
> causing the problem?
A symbol name of 268 Kb is quite impressive,
I hope you never have to print this variable in gdb :).
> 
> Please let me know if there is any other information that you need? Or
> if you have some other things to test.
The information is clear, I think the problem is identified now.
The best is to file a bug entry in bugzilla, I hope to fix
this problem in the coming weeks or so.

Thanks

Philippe