Well Well Well....my brain comes through again. After 4 days (5 to get technical) and hours and hours of sifting through code, scratching my @$$ and praying it comes to me. I fixed it and I had to tell someone about it. Thank you very much to the people that helped me. Keep it up.
Arkham ----- Original Message ----- From: ArKHaM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 6:53 PM Subject: memory leak chapter 2 > Hello again list, > I've been battling with this memory leak for about 4 days now. I've > been doing all that I know to do to find it and I am very greatful for the > help you people have given me. It's restored my faith in the list. I've > spent about 5 hours in gdb inspecting memory and whatnot when I came accross > this: > > Fri Jan 4 20:40:08 2002 :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] has connected. > > Breakpoint 1, medit (ch=0x4056edc4, argument=0x4056d176 "test mob") > at olc.c:2459 > 2459 free_string(pMob->player_name); > (gdb) > (gdb) inspect pMob->player_name > $1 = 0x40180f40 "test mob" > (gdb) step > free_string (pstr=0x40180f40 "test mob") at db.c:2492 > 2492 if ( pstr == NULL > (gdb) step > 2499 } > (gdb) step > medit (ch=0x4056edc4, argument=0x4056d176 "test mob") at olc.c:2460 > 2460 pMob->player_name = str_dup(arg2); > (gdb) inspect pMob->player_name > $2 = 0x40180f40 "test mob" > (gdb) inspect arg2 > $3 = "test mob\000ected from aca95277.ipt.aol.com at Fri Jan 4 20:40:08 > 2002\n\ > r", '\000' <repeats 3230 times>, ">þ\t@", '\000' <repeats 12 times>, > "[EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ¿\00 > 0\000\000\000\000\000\000\000gfff\002\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\032.\020\b > \000 > \000\000\000àÏ\a@", '\000' <repeats 12 times>, ">þ\t@", '\000' <repeats 12 > times > >, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"... > > Now I've spent about 30 minutes starring at free_string() and I can't > determine if free_string(pMob->player_name) is actually freeing the string > in player_name. Second, what is the deal with the junk in arg2? Here's > that assignment at the top of the medit function. > > strcpy(arg2, argument); <----is this correct in doing??? > > Once again thank you all very very much for your help. > > Arkham > > > -- > ROM mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.rom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rom
