Debug Malloc (Dmalloc) Library Release Notes

Version: Release 5.2.1
Last-Version: 5.2.0
Date: July 8, 2003

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Overview

Bug fix release which resolves some issues with the strdup function that have been around a while. Also fixed a problem where the macro arguments in dmalloc.h were not enclosed in ().

New Functionality

None.

Dmalloc Utility Changes

None.

Changes to the settings.dist File

None.

Installation Changes

None.

Programming Notes

None.

Environmental Variable Changes

None.

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed problems with arguments to the various allocation macros in dmalloc.h were not surrounded by parens (). This meant that the calloc macro could produce bad arithmetic because of operator ordering. Rookie mistake.
• Fixed problem with the strdup function being defined as void * instead of char *. Also, there was a char ** and void ** bug in the function which caused some crashes on some architectures.

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