Re: [Wireshark-dev] Memory corrupted

2012-03-14 Thread Akos Vandra
I was referring to the fact that malloc(0) should run fine, without any errors. Turns out I indeed overlooked something, and really was writing the pointer returned, so please disregard my report. Regards, Ákos On 14 March 2012 21:51, Guy Harris wrote: > > On Mar 14, 2012, at 1:15 PM, Jakub Za

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Memory corrupted

2012-03-14 Thread Guy Harris
On Mar 14, 2012, at 1:15 PM, Jakub Zawadzki wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 09:01:07PM +0100, Akos Vandra wrote: >> Figured it out, however this is a bug in wireshark, I suppose. >> A call to ep_alloc(0) was the culprit. IMHO that should not be a >> problem, as I expect it to work as malloc work

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Memory corrupted

2012-03-14 Thread Jakub Zawadzki
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 09:01:07PM +0100, Akos Vandra wrote: > Figured it out, however this is a bug in wireshark, I suppose. > A call to ep_alloc(0) was the culprit. IMHO that should not be a > problem, as I expect it to work as malloc works, and malloc should > handle a 0 size, as stated in the C

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Memory corrupted

2012-03-14 Thread Akos Vandra
Hi! Figured it out, however this is a bug in wireshark, I suppose. A call to ep_alloc(0) was the culprit. IMHO that should not be a problem, as I expect it to work as malloc works, and malloc should handle a 0 size, as stated in the C standard. Regards, Ákos On 14 March 2012 20:52, Akos Vandra

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Memory corrupted

2012-03-14 Thread Bill Meier
On 3/14/2012 3:52 PM, Akos Vandra wrote: Hi! I'm developing a dissector for a proprrietary protocol. It has been working up until now. Today it started crashing wireshark, with the not very helpful message: " 20:48:51 Err Memory corrupted Aborted " Can you please help me what could b

[Wireshark-dev] Memory corrupted

2012-03-14 Thread Akos Vandra
Hi! I'm developing a dissector for a proprrietary protocol. It has been working up until now. Today it started crashing wireshark, with the not very helpful message: " 20:48:51 Err Memory corrupted Aborted " Can you please help me what could be the problem? I am using ep_alloc in the c