Re: Non-aligned pointer errors on Mac OS X

["alex.mania@..." <alex.mania@...>]

I doubt it's a bug in the lua core, more probably in his own code or sqlite.

I say this as the allocator I use, for one, does not allow any (reasonable)
form of heap corruption or freeing of invalid pointers.

Interesting about the OS X malloc, didn't know it aligned that aggressively.

On Wed Jan 16 14:28 , Rob Barris sent:

> On OS X all calls to malloc() will return something aligned in 16  
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> byte boundary unless its size is less than 16 bytes or maybe 8 bytes.
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> So, the runtime is trying to let us know that some code path is  
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> possibly freeing a bogus pointer. Frame #4 in your crawl shows the  
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> point in Lua code where the call to free() is made.. I wonder if you  
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> have found a bug.