[ODE] BoundsChecker

Shaul Kedem shaul_kedem at yahoo.com
Thu Jul 3 13:07:02 2003


DjArcas, 
 If it's stack size - try to increase it and see what
happens (in the linker options - try something like
0x800000)

Shaul

--- DjArcas <djarcas@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Nope nope and I think so... and I don't have *nix :)
> 
> The only thing it's warning me about is literally
> thousands of 'Unitialized
> memory copy in swapProblem', inside SolveLCP. After
> a few dozen physics
> updates (all my objects have gone to QNAN already),
> I get a crash inside
> dSolveLCP, where it tries to allocate more memory:
> 
> dReal *d = (dReal*) ALLOCA (n*sizeof(dReal));
> 
> My guess is that the QNAN problem is causing all the
> objects to collide
> inside eachother, causing me to run out of stack.
> 
> 
> 
> I've uploaded the purify report here:
> 
> http://www.sawkins.com/crash.txt
> 
>  but, I'll be honest, large swathes of it is
> gibberish to me!
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> 
> From: "Shaul Kedem" <shaul_kedem@yahoo.com>
> To: "DjArcas" <djarcas@hotmail.com>; <ode@q12.org>
> Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 8:44 PM
> Subject: Re: [ODE] BoundsChecker
> 
> 
> > DjArcas,
> >  I used purify for a while (not the newest one) -
> >  - do you use release compile?
> >  - do you use a propriety memory manager?
> >  - does your version of purify/boundschecker
> support
> > heap allocation debugging?
> >
> >  Check all of the above, if you'll use msvcrt
> > malloc/new , use a debug compile and your
> > purify/bounds checker supports heap over bounds
> > checking (and is enabled) you should find your
> > problem.
> >
> >  If that doesn't help try compiling on unix using
> > electric fence or some other library that does
> memory
> > checking (there are a couple out there) - that is
> > assuming you can compile on a *nix machine.
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> > Shaul
> >
> > --- DjArcas <djarcas@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > Does anyone have any experience with
> BoundsChecker
> > > or Rational Purify?
> > >
> > > I've tried running them both on my simulation,
> to no
> > > avail - they detect nothing relevant until I get
> an
> > > access violation inside StepIslands.
> > >
> > > Please, someone, help!
> > >
> >
> >
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