[B.A.T.M.A.N.] Debug Malloc Problem

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 11:31 PM, Marek Lindner <lindner_marek(a)yahoo.de> wrote: ok, here is what I found on the debug malloc problem I am having: In the function debugMalloc: =================================        chunkHeader = (struct chunkHeader *)memory;        chunk = memory + sizeof(struct chunkHeader);        chunkTrailer = (struct chunkTrailer *)(memory + sizeof(struct chunkHeader) + length);        chunkHeader->length = length;        chunkHeader->tag = tag;        chunkHeader->magicNumber = MAGIC_NUMBER;        chunkTrailer->magicNumber = MAGIC_NUMBER; =>      pthread_mutex_lock(&chunk_mutex); ================================= I get the following results: (gdb) p chunkHeader $26 = (struct chunkHeader *) 0x308c8 (gdb) p chunk $27 = (unsigned char *) 0x308d8 "\020\322\n" (gdb) p chunkTrailer $28 = (struct chunkTrailer *) 0x308dd (gdb) p *chunkHeader $29 = {next = 0x40096c34, length = 5, tag = 15, magicNumber = 305419896} (gdb) p *chunkTrailer $30 = {magicNumber = 878082050} (gdb) p length $31 = 5 I think the magic number is not getting into the chunk trailer correctly because it is not aligned. chunkHeader is aligned because it was returned by malloc chunk is aligned because the size of the header is 16 chunkTrailer is not aligned because it is chunk + 5 Hope this helps.  If not, and that shouldn't be a problem, I'll see what else I can find.