Fatal in <operator delete>: unreasonable size

arobic · August 18, 2011, 1:48pm

Dear ROOTers,

I am using ROOT classes inside a C++ standalone compiled code (mainly to perform FFT and save data to ROOT trees) and when I get this strange error message at the complete end of the execution (after the output root file is written):

Fatal in <operator delete>: unreasonable size (-4616189618054758400)
aborting
Aborted

As the only info I could find on the web about this error message was pointing to ROOT forum entries, and nothing else, I figured this might be linked to the ROOT classes but I can’t be sure. I don’t think you should be debugging this for me, but if you could give me a hint as to where to look for to get started, that would be useful. Any information on this error message would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Andrée

pcanal · August 18, 2011, 2:56pm

Hi Andrée,

Most likely this error is only a consequence of an early problem (probably a double delete or a memory overwrite). I recommend that you try running your example with valgrind which should be able to pinpoint the real issue.

Cheers,
Philippe.

arobic · August 19, 2011, 12:11pm

Hi Philippe,

Thanks for the advice. I tried that, but I have issues interpreting the output from valgrind. When I get stack traces looking like this, is my code to be blamed or valgrind is finding memory leaks in the ROOT code?

==31403== Invalid read of size 8
==31403==    at 0xA9B47C4: __strspn_sse42 (smmintrin.h:628)
==31403==    by 0xADD09E8: TROOT::GetType(char const*, bool) const (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCore.so)
==31403==    by 0xAE42F12: TClass::GetClass(char const*, bool, bool) (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCore.so)
==31403==    by 0xAE44C26: TClass::AddRule(char const*) (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCore.so)
==31403==    by 0xAE44E04: (anonymous namespace)::ReadRulesContent(_IO_FILE*) (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCore.so)
==31403==    by 0xAE44FCD: TClass::ReadRules() (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCore.so)
==31403==    by 0xADD648C: TROOT::TROOT(char const*, char const*, void (**)()) (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCore.so)
==31403==    by 0xADD68A3: ROOT::GetROOT() (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCore.so)
==31403==    by 0xADD692F: global constructors keyed to TROOT.cxx (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCore.so)
==31403==    by 0xB1C3535: ??? (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCore.so)
==31403==    by 0xAD7198A: ??? (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCore.so)
==31403==    by 0x7FF00026C: ???
==31403==    by 0x666E6F632E656D: ???
==31403==    by 0x3D485441504E414C: ???
==31403==    by 0x7265632F7366612E: ???
==31403==    by 0x2F77732F68632E6D: ???
==31403==    by 0x2F7070612F67636B: ???
==31403==    by 0x73657361656C6571: ???
==31403==    by 0x2E352F544F4F522E: ???
==31403==    by 0x782F6330302E3831: ???
==31403==  Address 0xee03da8 is 40 bytes inside a block of size 45 alloc'd
==31403==    at 0x4C27A6C: calloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:467)
==31403==    by 0x4E32030: operator new(unsigned long) (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libNew.so)
==31403==    by 0x4E324B8: operator new[](unsigned long) (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libNew.so)
==31403==    by 0xADD83B3: TStringRef::GetRep(int, int) (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCore.so)
==31403==    by 0xADDA2F6: TString::TString(std::string const&) (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCore.so)
==31403==    by 0xAE5AAE0: ROOT::TSchemaRule::SetFromRule(char const*) (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCore.so)
==31403==    by 0xAE44BD5: TClass::AddRule(char const*) (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCore.so)
==31403==    by 0xAE44E04: (anonymous namespace)::ReadRulesContent(_IO_FILE*) (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCore.so)
==31403==    by 0xAE44FCD: TClass::ReadRules() (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCore.so)
==31403==    by 0xADD648C: TROOT::TROOT(char const*, char const*, void (**)()) (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCore.so)
==31403==    by 0xADD68A3: ROOT::GetROOT() (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCore.so)
==31403==    by 0xADD692F: global constructors keyed to TROOT.cxx (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCore.so)
==31403==    by 0xB1C3535: ??? (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCore.so)
==31403==    by 0xAD7198A: ??? (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCore.so)
==31403==    by 0x7FF00026C: ???
==31403==    by 0x666E6F632E656D: ???
==31403==    by 0x3D485441504E414C: ???
==31403==    by 0x7265632F7366612E: ???
==31403==    by 0x2F77732F68632E6D: ???
==31403==    by 0x2F7070612F67636B: ???
==31403== 

.... execution of my code.....

==31403== Invalid read of size 8
==31403==    at 0xA9B47C4: __strspn_sse42 (smmintrin.h:628)
==31403==    by 0xADD09E8: TROOT::GetType(char const*, bool) const (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCore.so)
==31403==    by 0xAE42F12: TClass::GetClass(char const*, bool, bool) (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCore.so)
==31403==    by 0xADCFEE8: TROOT::IgnoreInclude(char const*, char const*) (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCore.so)
==31403==    by 0x5129FC8: G__loadfile (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCint.so)
==31403==    by 0x51745E9: G__process_cmd (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCint.so)
==31403==    by 0xAE2E250: TCint::ProcessLine(char const*, TInterpreter::EErrorCode*) (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCore.so)
==31403==    by 0xAE2BDD2: TCint::ProcessLineSynch(char const*, TInterpreter::EErrorCode*) (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCore.so)
==31403==    by 0xAD8ADD8: TApplication::ExecuteFile(char const*, int*, bool) (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCore.so)
==31403==    by 0xAE2C972: TCint::ExecuteMacro(char const*, TInterpreter::EErrorCode*) (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCore.so)
==31403==    by 0xADD361E: TROOT::Macro(char const*, int*, bool) (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCore.so)
==31403==    by 0xADBA6DA: TPluginManager::LoadHandlerMacros(char const*) (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCore.so)
==31403==    by 0xADBAAA4: TPluginManager::LoadHandlersFromPluginDirs(char const*) (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCore.so)
==31403==    by 0xADBB599: TPluginManager::FindHandler(char const*, char const*) (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCore.so)
==31403==    by 0xAE06A38: TVirtualFFT::FFT(int, int*, char const*) (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCore.so)
==31403==    by 0x623DBAB: TH1::FFT(TH1*, char const*) (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libHist.so)
==31403==    by 0x47C39C: hilber_analysis(GLI::RTDR&, RIS::RTDR const&, std::pair<int, int>&) (in /home/arobic/FSI_code/fsianalysis/trunk/FSIAnalysis/fsi)
==31403==    by 0x47E501: analyzeFourier(RIS::RTDR&, GLI::Collection<std::vector, std::allocator>&, int) (in /home/arobic/FSI_code/fsianalysis/trunk/FSIAnalysis/fsi)
==31403==    by 0x40634D: main (in /home/arobic/FSI_code/fsianalysis/trunk/FSIAnalysis/fsi)
==31403==  Address 0x1ca1fe18 is 40 bytes inside a block of size 47 alloc'd
==31403==    at 0x4C27A6C: calloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:467)
==31403==    by 0x4E32030: operator new(unsigned long) (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libNew.so)
==31403==    by 0x4E324B8: operator new[](unsigned long) (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libNew.so)
==31403==    by 0xADD83B3: TStringRef::GetRep(int, int) (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCore.so)
==31403==    by 0xADDA3BF: TString::TString(char const*) (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCore.so)
==31403==    by 0xADCFED7: TROOT::IgnoreInclude(char const*, char const*) (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCore.so)
==31403==    by 0x5129FC8: G__loadfile (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCint.so)
==31403==    by 0x51745E9: G__process_cmd (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCint.so)
==31403==    by 0xAE2E250: TCint::ProcessLine(char const*, TInterpreter::EErrorCode*) (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCore.so)
==31403==    by 0xAE2BDD2: TCint::ProcessLineSynch(char const*, TInterpreter::EErrorCode*) (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCore.so)
==31403==    by 0xAD8ADD8: TApplication::ExecuteFile(char const*, int*, bool) (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCore.so)
==31403==    by 0xAE2C972: TCint::ExecuteMacro(char const*, TInterpreter::EErrorCode*) (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCore.so)
==31403==    by 0xADD361E: TROOT::Macro(char const*, int*, bool) (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCore.so)
==31403==    by 0xADBA6DA: TPluginManager::LoadHandlerMacros(char const*) (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCore.so)
==31403==    by 0xADBAAA4: TPluginManager::LoadHandlersFromPluginDirs(char const*) (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCore.so)
==31403==    by 0xADBB599: TPluginManager::FindHandler(char const*, char const*) (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCore.so)
==31403==    by 0xAE06A38: TVirtualFFT::FFT(int, int*, char const*) (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCore.so)
==31403==    by 0x623DBAB: TH1::FFT(TH1*, char const*) (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libHist.so)
==31403==    by 0x47C39C: hilber_analysis(GLI::RTDR&, RIS::RTDR const&, std::pair<int, int>&) (in /home/arobic/FSI_code/fsianalysis/trunk/FSIAnalysis/fsi)
==31403==    by 0x47E501: analyzeFourier(RIS::RTDR&, GLI::Collection<std::vector, std::allocator>&, int) (in /home/arobic/FSI_code/fsianalysis/trunk/FSIAnalysis/fsi)
==31403== 
==31403== Invalid read of size 8
==31403==    at 0xA9B47C4: __strspn_sse42 (smmintrin.h:628)
==31403==    by 0xADD09E8: TROOT::GetType(char const*, bool) const (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCore.so)
==31403==    by 0xADBB95B: TPluginHandler::ExecPlugin(int, ...) (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCore.so)
==31403==    by 0xAE06A6F: TVirtualFFT::FFT(int, int*, char const*) (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCore.so)
==31403==    by 0x623DBAB: TH1::FFT(TH1*, char const*) (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libHist.so)
==31403==    by 0x47C39C: hilber_analysis(GLI::RTDR&, RIS::RTDR const&, std::pair<int, int>&) (in /home/arobic/FSI_code/fsianalysis/trunk/FSIAnalysis/fsi)
==31403==    by 0x47E501: analyzeFourier(RIS::RTDR&, GLI::Collection<std::vector, std::allocator>&, int) (in /home/arobic/FSI_code/fsianalysis/trunk/FSIAnalysis/fsi)
==31403==    by 0x40634D: main (in /home/arobic/FSI_code/fsianalysis/trunk/FSIAnalysis/fsi)
==31403==  Address 0x26a1a1c0 is 32 bytes inside a block of size 39 alloc'd
==31403==    at 0x4C27A6C: calloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:467)
==31403==    by 0x4E32030: operator new(unsigned long) (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libNew.so)
==31403==    by 0x4E324B8: operator new[](unsigned long) (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libNew.so)
==31403==    by 0xADD83B3: TStringRef::GetRep(int, int) (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCore.so)
==31403==    by 0xADDA3BF: TString::TString(char const*) (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCore.so)
==31403==    by 0xADBB945: TPluginHandler::ExecPlugin(int, ...) (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCore.so)
==31403==    by 0xAE06A6F: TVirtualFFT::FFT(int, int*, char const*) (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libCore.so)
==31403==    by 0x623DBAB: TH1::FFT(TH1*, char const*) (in /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.28.00c/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libHist.so)
==31403==    by 0x47C39C: hilber_analysis(GLI::RTDR&, RIS::RTDR const&, std::pair<int, int>&) (in /home/arobic/FSI_code/fsianalysis/trunk/FSIAnalysis/fsi)
==31403==    by 0x47E501: analyzeFourier(RIS::RTDR&, GLI::Collection<std::vector, std::allocator>&, int) (in /home/arobic/FSI_code/fsianalysis/trunk/FSIAnalysis/fsi)
==31403==    by 0x40634D: main (in /home/arobic/FSI_code/fsianalysis/trunk/FSIAnalysis/fsi)

The doc I read about valgrind mentionned that it was always preferable to fix issues pointed out by valgrind in the order they were showing up in the output, as the first ones might cause the later ones. The errors shown above are the first ones listed, but I don’t know what to do with them. Any insight?

Thanks.

Andrée

pcanal · August 19, 2011, 8:13pm

Hi Andrée,

The report about __strspn_sse42 are spurrious and can be ignore. It might help to re-run the experiment with a debug build of ROOT (which the __strspn_sse42 message should not appear).

Cheers,
Philippe.