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| author | Edward Z. Yang <ezyang@cs.stanford.edu> | 2016-08-15 02:22:28 -0700 |
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| committer | Edward Z. Yang <ezyang@cs.stanford.edu> | 2016-08-15 18:05:46 -0700 |
| commit | f9a11a241b8056ac2b9c771172a48919fb3d0ed1 (patch) | |
| tree | 5808c66fee37b4c39935b00a0e53201bafa72c8c /rts/RtsUtils.c | |
| parent | da99a7f515cddb7e9eebd81283375c245e1625d4 (diff) | |
| download | haskell-f9a11a241b8056ac2b9c771172a48919fb3d0ed1.tar.gz | |
When in sanity mode, un-zero malloc'd memory; fix uninitialized memory bugs.
malloc'd memory is not guaranteed to be zeroed. On Linux, however,
it is often zeroed, leading to latent bugs. In fact, with this
patch I fix two uninitialized memory bugs stemming from this.
Signed-off-by: Edward Z. Yang <ezyang@cs.stanford.edu>
Test Plan: validate
Reviewers: simonmar, austin, Phyx, bgamari, erikd
Subscribers: thomie
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D2455
Diffstat (limited to 'rts/RtsUtils.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | rts/RtsUtils.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/rts/RtsUtils.c b/rts/RtsUtils.c index 716d203462..3a9742744f 100644 --- a/rts/RtsUtils.c +++ b/rts/RtsUtils.c @@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ stgMallocBytes (size_t n, char *msg) rtsConfig.mallocFailHook((W_) n, msg); /*msg*/ stg_exit(EXIT_INTERNAL_ERROR); } + IF_DEBUG(sanity, memset(space, 0xbb, n)); return space; } |