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RE: Mysterious random crashes with latest snapshots


----Original Message----
>From: Christopher Faylor
>Sent: 30 June 2005 15:58

> On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 03:37:25PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>>  I think I remember noticing that backtracing across sigfe doesn't always
>> work too well.  Then again, there could be a problem with the debug info:
> 
> "doesn't always" == "never".
>
>>> #3  0x00435d27 in fhandler_pipe::get_guard ()
>> 
>> makes no sense.  But I would imagine the peculiarity is down to sigfe;
>> it does something unexpected to the stack frame, that the debug info
>> doesn't reflect.
> 
> No, it's due to the fact that 0x00435d27 is an address in the
> application and the application has no debugging symbols.

  That doesn't explain how it managed to think that 0x0040xxxx was somewhere
in the middle of the dll.  I wouldn't have been surprised if the dll was
loaded *lower* in memory than the executable and that was the last symbol at
the highest address in the dll, but I am surprised that it could get
confused by symbols that point to much higher addresses.

>>> In case you haven't noticed, I'm running a snapshot, which, IIUC, *is*
>>> a debug build.  And that doesn't help much, as you can see.
>> 
>> Debug yes; unoptimised, I think not, although we'd need cgf or cv to
>> confirm how the snapshot process works.
> 
> The snapshots are unstripped.  Otherwise, it is a normal build.

  Right, so -O2 then, cheers for clearing that up.

    cheers,
      DaveK
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