-Mozilla 1.0RC1 crashes because it jumps to location zero: Jump
-to the invalid address stated on the next line. Other people
-have reported the same thing. Despite considerable effort in tracking
-this down, I cannot figure out what's going on. If you have a program
-which does this, is small enough that I have half a hope of making
-sense of it, and is open-source (or at least you'd be happy for me to
-look at), I'd be very grateful to have it.
-
-On the other hand, I have received mail from at least one person
-who appears to be successful in running CVS builds of Mozilla on
-Valgrind.
+Mozilla 1.0RC1 works fine too, provided that you patch it as described
+here:
+http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124335. This fixes a
+bug in Mozilla which assumes that memory returned from
+malloc is 8-aligned. Valgrind's allocator only
+guarantees 4-alignment, so without the patch Mozilla makes an illegal
+memory access, which Valgrind of course spots, and then bombs.
@@ -1720,14 +1716,6 @@ Programs which are known not to work are:
Valgrind. Emacs works fine if you build it to use the standard
malloc/free routines.
-
Jump to the invalid address stated on the next
- line. Other people have reported the same thing.
- Despite considerable effort in tracking this down, I cannot
- figure out what's going on. If you have a program which does
- this, is small enough that I have half a hope of making sense of
- it, and is open-source (or at least you'd be happy for me to
- look at), I'd be very grateful to have it.
diff --git a/coregrind/docs/manual.html b/coregrind/docs/manual.html
index 8a24c85cf..5644872d0 100644
--- a/coregrind/docs/manual.html
+++ b/coregrind/docs/manual.html
@@ -1216,17 +1216,13 @@ As of 1 May 02, the following programs now work fine on my RedHat 7.2
box: Opera 6.0Beta2, KNode in KDE 3.0, Mozilla-0.9.2.1 and
Galeon-0.11.3, both as supplied with RedHat 7.2.
-Mozilla 1.0RC1 crashes because it jumps to location zero: Jump
-to the invalid address stated on the next line. Other people
-have reported the same thing. Despite considerable effort in tracking
-this down, I cannot figure out what's going on. If you have a program
-which does this, is small enough that I have half a hope of making
-sense of it, and is open-source (or at least you'd be happy for me to
-look at), I'd be very grateful to have it.
-
-On the other hand, I have received mail from at least one person
-who appears to be successful in running CVS builds of Mozilla on
-Valgrind.
+Mozilla 1.0RC1 works fine too, provided that you patch it as described
+here:
+http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124335. This fixes a
+bug in Mozilla which assumes that memory returned from
+malloc is 8-aligned. Valgrind's allocator only
+guarantees 4-alignment, so without the patch Mozilla makes an illegal
+memory access, which Valgrind of course spots, and then bombs.
@@ -1720,14 +1716,6 @@ Programs which are known not to work are:
Valgrind. Emacs works fine if you build it to use the standard
malloc/free routines.
-
Jump to the invalid address stated on the next
- line. Other people have reported the same thing.
- Despite considerable effort in tracking this down, I cannot
- figure out what's going on. If you have a program which does
- this, is small enough that I have half a hope of making sense of
- it, and is open-source (or at least you'd be happy for me to
- look at), I'd be very grateful to have it.
diff --git a/docs/manual.html b/docs/manual.html
index 8a24c85cf..5644872d0 100644
--- a/docs/manual.html
+++ b/docs/manual.html
@@ -1216,17 +1216,13 @@ As of 1 May 02, the following programs now work fine on my RedHat 7.2
box: Opera 6.0Beta2, KNode in KDE 3.0, Mozilla-0.9.2.1 and
Galeon-0.11.3, both as supplied with RedHat 7.2.
-Mozilla 1.0RC1 crashes because it jumps to location zero: Jump
-to the invalid address stated on the next line. Other people
-have reported the same thing. Despite considerable effort in tracking
-this down, I cannot figure out what's going on. If you have a program
-which does this, is small enough that I have half a hope of making
-sense of it, and is open-source (or at least you'd be happy for me to
-look at), I'd be very grateful to have it.
-
-On the other hand, I have received mail from at least one person
-who appears to be successful in running CVS builds of Mozilla on
-Valgrind.
+Mozilla 1.0RC1 works fine too, provided that you patch it as described
+here:
+http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124335. This fixes a
+bug in Mozilla which assumes that memory returned from
+malloc is 8-aligned. Valgrind's allocator only
+guarantees 4-alignment, so without the patch Mozilla makes an illegal
+memory access, which Valgrind of course spots, and then bombs.
@@ -1720,14 +1716,6 @@ Programs which are known not to work are:
Valgrind. Emacs works fine if you build it to use the standard
malloc/free routines.
-
Jump to the invalid address stated on the next
- line. Other people have reported the same thing.
- Despite considerable effort in tracking this down, I cannot
- figure out what's going on. If you have a program which does
- this, is small enough that I have half a hope of making sense of
- it, and is open-source (or at least you'd be happy for me to
- look at), I'd be very grateful to have it.
diff --git a/memcheck/docs/manual.html b/memcheck/docs/manual.html
index 8a24c85cf..5644872d0 100644
--- a/memcheck/docs/manual.html
+++ b/memcheck/docs/manual.html
@@ -1216,17 +1216,13 @@ As of 1 May 02, the following programs now work fine on my RedHat 7.2
box: Opera 6.0Beta2, KNode in KDE 3.0, Mozilla-0.9.2.1 and
Galeon-0.11.3, both as supplied with RedHat 7.2.
-Mozilla 1.0RC1 crashes because it jumps to location zero: Jump
-to the invalid address stated on the next line. Other people
-have reported the same thing. Despite considerable effort in tracking
-this down, I cannot figure out what's going on. If you have a program
-which does this, is small enough that I have half a hope of making
-sense of it, and is open-source (or at least you'd be happy for me to
-look at), I'd be very grateful to have it.
-
-On the other hand, I have received mail from at least one person
-who appears to be successful in running CVS builds of Mozilla on
-Valgrind.
+Mozilla 1.0RC1 works fine too, provided that you patch it as described
+here:
+http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124335. This fixes a
+bug in Mozilla which assumes that memory returned from
+malloc is 8-aligned. Valgrind's allocator only
+guarantees 4-alignment, so without the patch Mozilla makes an illegal
+memory access, which Valgrind of course spots, and then bombs.
@@ -1720,14 +1716,6 @@ Programs which are known not to work are:
Valgrind. Emacs works fine if you build it to use the standard
malloc/free routines.
-
Jump to the invalid address stated on the next
- line. Other people have reported the same thing.
- Despite considerable effort in tracking this down, I cannot
- figure out what's going on. If you have a program which does
- this, is small enough that I have half a hope of making sense of
- it, and is open-source (or at least you'd be happy for me to
- look at), I'd be very grateful to have it.