[erlang-bugs] : R12B-3: string:to_integer() sporadic failures

[Edwin Fine]

Wow. I'm really glad Lev and co. noticed it, then!
Thanks.


On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 5:40 AM, Raimo Niskanen <
raimo+erlang-bugs@REDACTED <raimo%2Berlang-bugs@REDACTED>>wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 04:23:59AM -0400, Edwin Fine wrote:
> > Thanks, Dan. As a matter of interest, what was the error (executive
> > summary:) ?
>
> When the result became a bignum, a second allocation of heap
> space was made - the first for the result container and the
> second for the bignum; and these were in the wrong order
> temporal vs pointerwise violating an essential garbage
> collector assumption.
>
> So, when the second allocation happened to allocate
> a temporary heap buffer aka "heap fragment", a
> subsequent garbage collect messed up ending with
> the result pointing to invalid data in freed memory...
>
> This could have lead to almost anything including
> emulator crash.
>
> > Regards,
> > Edwin
>
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> --
>
> / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
>
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