Re: core dump on realloc?

[Diego Nehab <diego@...>]

> > >This seems very strange to me but i have seen it repeatedly now.  I have
> > >embedded lua into a cgi to act as a simple templating engine and the cgi
> > >is execute approx 500k times a day but once a day - it cores. Looking at

Does your CGI  program perform any operations that  could be overwriting
someone else's  heap memory? When  a program writes  a few bytes  out of
bounds, the  memory manager usually  does not  detect it until  the next
malloc or free.

It could be that it is not Lua's fault...

Regards,
Diego.