Mail Archives: cygwin/2011/12/09/09:31:48
On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 11:57:37AM +0059, Denis Excoffier wrote:
>
>I use the latest packages and cygwin snapshots. The problem described
>below began several snapshots in the past, around beginning of December.
>
>The following program, with static allocation of a reasonable amount
>of data, segfaults, maybe in alloca(). With a smaller size
>(eg 10000) it's ok. With new/malloc (even with 100 times more) it's
>ok. With C or C++. 100% reproducible.
>
>Thank you for your help.
>
>Regards,
>
>Denis Excoffier.
>
>
>
>% uname -a
>CYGWIN_NT-5.1 %%EDITED%% 1.7.10s(0.255/5/3) 20111209 06:57:51 i686 Cygwin
>% cat foo.cc
>//
>// /usr/bin/g++ -o foo foo.cc
>//
>#define DONT_USE_NEW
>int main() {
>//
>#ifdef DONT_USE_NEW
> unsigned int const SIZE = 689471;
> int foo[SIZE];
>#else
> unsigned int const SIZE = 68947100;
> int *const foo = new int [SIZE];
>#endif
> for ( unsigned int i = 0 ; i < SIZE ; ++i ) {
> foo[i] = i;
> };
>#ifdef DONT_USE_NEW
>#else
> // missing free
>#endif
> return(0);
>};
>% /usr/bin/g++ -o foo foo.cc
>% ./foo
>Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>% /usr/bin/gdb ./foo
>GNU gdb (GDB) 7.3.50.20111026-cvs (cygwin-special)
>Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
>This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
>There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying"
>and "show warranty" for details.
>This GDB was configured as "i686-cygwin".
>For bug reporting instructions, please see:
><http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
>Reading symbols from %%EDITED%%/foo...done.
>(gdb) run
>Starting program: %%EDITED%%/foo
>[New Thread 3256.0xf44]
>[New Thread 3256.0x1908]
>
>Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
>_alloca ()
> at /gnu/gcc/releases/respins/4.5.3-3/gcc4-4.5.3-3/src/gcc-4.5.3/libgcc/../gcc/config/i386/cygwin.asm:45
>45 /gnu/gcc/releases/respins/4.5.3-3/gcc4-4.5.3-3/src/gcc-4.5.3/libgcc/../gcc/config/i386/cygwin.asm: No such file or directory.
> in /gnu/gcc/releases/respins/4.5.3-3/gcc4-4.5.3-3/src/gcc-4.5.3/libgcc/../gcc/config/i386/cygwin.asm
>(gdb) quit
>A debugging session is active.
>
> Inferior 1 [process 3256] will be killed.
>
>Quit anyway? (y or n) y
WFM, sorry.
cgf
% gdb /tmp/foo
GNU gdb (GDB) 7.3.50.20111026-cvs (cygwin-special)
Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i686-cygwin".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
/home/cgf/.gdbinit:2: Error in sourced command file:
No symbol table is loaded. Use the "file" command.
Reading symbols from /tmp/foo...done.
(gdb) r
Starting program: /tmp/foo
[New Thread 1784.0x106c]
warning: section .gnu_debuglink not found in /cygdrive/d/cygwin/bin/cygwin1.dbg
[New Thread 1784.0xedc]
[Inferior 1 (process 1784) exited normally]
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