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authorKaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com>2011-11-18 13:27:18 -0800
committerKaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com>2011-11-18 13:27:18 -0800
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* gc.c (mark_mem_region): Use the Valgrind API only to mark
the type field as accessible, not the whole object that we are checking. Marking the whole object accessible hides uninitialized field bugs! * lib.c: And found a bug already: lazy_str was not completely initializing all of the object fields (ls.prefix, ls.list) before invoking memory allocating operations, making it possible for the garbage collector to encounter uninitialized object areas.
Diffstat (limited to 'gc.c')
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gc.c b/gc.c
index 8f1ee6dc..1f31cf54 100644
--- a/gc.c
+++ b/gc.c
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ static void mark_mem_region(val *low, val *high)
if (in_heap(maybe_obj)) {
#ifdef HAVE_VALGRIND
if (opt_vg_debug)
- VALGRIND_MAKE_MEM_DEFINED(maybe_obj, sizeof *maybe_obj);
+ VALGRIND_MAKE_MEM_DEFINED(&maybe_obj->t.type, sizeof maybe_obj->t.type);
#endif
type_t t = maybe_obj->t.type;
if ((t & FREE) == 0) {