On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 2:24 PM, James Turner <zakal...@mac.com> wrote:
>
> Can anyone think of a reason particles are fine for some (many?) people 
> without this patch? Of course the patch should be applied, I'm just wondering 
> what would affect the ref-counting logic to hide the problem in some machines 
> / environments.

Deleted memory is not immediately overwritten, so maybe for lucky
people the contents stay there longer. There are ways to force freed
memory to be overwritten by some marker (such as 0xdf using dmalloc),
could be worth a try.

-- 
Csaba/Jester

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