2008/3/13, Peter Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> The recent changes (since Jan 30) that have been applied to epan\oids.c
> causes problems, at least on Windows.
> I ran into the problem today when I thought I should have a go at bug
> #2356.
>
> I opened wireshark-gtk2\wireshark.exe as the solution to use in Developer
> Studio 2005 (not EE), just to be able to run the entire Wireshark session
> under the debugger.
> However I cannot get passed the initialization of Wireshark because the
> debugger halts in oids.c, line 578 - free (oid);
> When commenting out that line, the debugger instead halts on line 298
> - free (name);
> When commenting out that line, the debugger instead halts on line 294 -
> free (name);
>  When commenting out that line, the debugger instead halts on line 387 -
> free (oid1); When commenting out that line, the debugger instead halts on
> line 388 - free (oid2);
> When commenting out that line, I can at can continue to run in the
> debugger.
>
> The debugger behaves in the same manner as it does if I call free for an
> already freed portion of memory.
> Note that I do not encounter any problems when running Wireshark outside
> the debugger.
>
> Why were these calls to free added?
>
> I went through the source code for libsmi-0.4.5 and agree that free
> *should* be required if "HAVE_VASPRINTF" was not defined when compiling
> libsmi for Windows. In that case, there exist an implementation in the
> library that will return memory allocated using realloc (after malloc).
> Hence the calls to free are correct then. But what is the case here? Was
> HAVE_VASPRINTF defined or not when the smi library was compiled for Windows?
>
> Any ideas on how to address this?
>
> / Peter
>


The problems are due to the changes applied to oids.c March 5 (SVN 24569),
not from Jan 30 as I said before.

/ Regards, Peter
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