[Interest] Using leveldb in a Qt app redirects unrelated system malloc calls to tcmalloc?

[René J. V. Bertin]

Thiago Macieira wrote:

Hi,

> of the parent. The fact that it's deadlocking in the code that is supposed to
> remove locks so that it won't deadlock is a good irony.

Yeah, very funny until it happens to you :)

> 
> Absent further proof to the contrary, this looks like a system bug.

You could be right, but how on earth do I end up in tcmalloc code here?

In my experiment I'm trying to store ints (index numbers used as the key) as 4-
byte strings in QByteArrays which get converted to std::strings for use with 
leveldb. I half expect that I'm overlooking a place where this goes wrong, but 
also that that would lead to more variable crash backtraces.

I use Chrome as a browser, which must use leveldb internally, so if this were a 
system bug I'd expect to see deadlocks while surfing. That just doesn't happen, 
which probably means we can at least not factor Qt out of the equation.

R.