[Adium-devl] Running Adium with Guard Malloc

[Matt Handley]

No, but this thread (found by searching for the odd-looking functino
HandleGDUT) gives some insight:

http://lists.apple.com/archives/Carbon-dev/2008/Jun/msg00102.html

Matt

On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 9:36 PM, Evan Schoenberg <evan.s at dreskin.net> wrote:
> When Guard Malloc is enabled, Adium quickly (relatively speaking) crashes in
> Apple code:
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x95640a21 in _LSCopyInfoForNode ()
> #1  0x9565bd9e in LSCopyItemInfoForRef ()
> #2  0x92e06d82 in IterateFolder ()
> #3  0x92e072f6 in HandleGDUT ()
> #4  0x960e0c74 in _fixupAppleEventHandler ()
> #5  0x960d2648 in aeDispatchAppleEvent ()
> #6  0x960d257e in dispatchEventAndSendReply ()
> #7  0x960d2425 in aeProcessAppleEvent ()
> #8  0x9117d47d in AEProcessAppleEvent ()
> #9  0x939ac719 in _DPSNextEvent ()
> #10 0x939abdb8 in -[NSApplication
> nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] ()
> #11 0x939a4df3 in -[NSApplication run] ()
> #12 0x93972030 in NSApplicationMain ()
> #13 0x000030e7 in main (argc=0x1, argv=0xbffff624) at
> /Users/evands/adium/Source/main.m:3
> This is even after disabling our registration as an apple event handler,
> stopping Sparkle from checking for updates (done because a sparkle update
> window was what i originally saw with the crash), and disabling Address Book
> integration (because it's really really slow to load with guard malloc
> enabled), done by the attached patch.
>
> Oh, I also turned off our Applescript support entirely, as
> someone http://lists.apple.com/archives/Applescript-implementors/2006/Feb/msg00040.html
> suggested that an AS parsing bug might anger Guard Malloc.
> Anyone have any thoughts as to what's causing this?  The Googles do not
> appear, to me anyways, to have an answer.  One or two people mention a
> similar problem tangentially, but there's never discussion nor resolution.
> -Evan
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