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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 12:20:12 -0600 (CST)
From: Brian Ford <ford AT vss DOT fsi DOT com>
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Subject: Re: 1.5.6-pre: Occasional bad memory accesses within cygwin1.dll
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On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 10:02:44AM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> >Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >>This should be fixed now.  I'm uploading a snapshot.
> >
> >CYGWIN_ME-4.90 hpn5170x 1.5.6s(0.108/3/2) 20031231 01:31:40 i686 unknown
> >unknown Cygwin
> >
> >Now virtually every cygwin program (/bin/true, ls, uname,...) almost
> >always ends with the popup about causing an error in Cygwin1.dll.
>
> Did you look at the changes I made?  It's difficult to believe that minor
> changes to cygwin.din would cause a popup on every access, although I can
> believe that the stuff in CVS previously would work that way.  If anything,
> I'd expect that there would be no change rather than actual worsening.
>
> Are you sure you're up to date?
>
Yep.  That change just wasn't enough.  Here's the next spot.

$ env PATH="../../cygwin:${PATH}" gdb ./checksignal.exe
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This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-cygwin"...
(gdb) r
Starting program:
/home/ford/downloads/cygb2/i686-pc-cygwin/winsup/testsuite/testsuite/checksignal.exe

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x6108bcad in _sigfe ()
Current language:  auto; currently c++
(gdb) bt
#0  0x6108bcad in _sigfe ()
#1  0xffffffff in ?? ()
#2  0x6108a683 in shared_info::initialize() (this=0xa000000)
    at ../../../../cygwin/winsup/cygwin/shared.cc:213
#3  0x6108a77d in memory_init() ()
    at ../../../../cygwin/winsup/cygwin/shared.cc:242
#4  0x61005c75 in dll_crt0_1(char*) ()
    at ../../../../cygwin/winsup/cygwin/dcrt0.cc:559
#5  0x6100615a in _dll_crt0 () at
../../../../cygwin/winsup/cygwin/dcrt0.cc:913
#6  0x61006256 in *_dll_crt0 (uptr=0x0)
    at ../../../../cygwin/winsup/cygwin/dcrt0.cc:926
(gdb) disassemble
Dump of assembler code for function _sigfe:
0x6108bc90 <_sigfe>:    push   %edx
0x6108bc91 <_sigfe+1>:  mov    %fs:0x4,%eax
0x6108bc97 <_sigfe+7>:  mov    $0x4,%edx
0x6108bc9c <_sigfe+12>: xadd   %edx,0xffffeff8(%eax)
0x6108bca3 <_sigfe+19>: lea    0x6108bcb1,%eax
0x6108bca9 <_sigfe+25>: xchg   %eax,0x8(%esp,1)
0x6108bcad <_sigfe+29>: mov    %eax,(%edx)
0x6108bcaf <_sigfe+31>: pop    %edx
0x6108bcb0 <_sigfe+32>: ret
End of assembler dump.
(gdb) p $edx
$1 = 0

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Brian Ford
Senior Realtime Software Engineer
VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
FlightSafety International
Phone: 314-551-8460
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