This is definitely a good thing.

2015-09-15 13:53 GMT+02:00 Ruben Smits <ruben [dot] smits [..] ...>:

> Hi all,
>
> There is currently a PR waiting for merge:
> https://github.com/orocos-toolchain/rtt/pull/77
> The PR adds functionality to the TLSF memory pool to detect memory
> corruption, which can happen due to double frees or non-thread safe
> handling of rt allocated variables.
>
> Previously applications would just continue to work with a corrupted TLSF
> pool resulting in undefined behaviour. With these patches the application
> would abort, since the TLSF memory pool is corrupted (we cannot detect it
> beforehand, only after the corruption has taken place) there is no real
> sane thing to do from that point and the abort is similar to a segfault.
>
> Before we merge this PR I would like everyone to fully understand the
> consequences of it as it might surface tlsf memory corruption issues with
> your applications that were undetected before.
>
> If you have big objections please speak up.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ruben
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