On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Iso-H wrote:
> On 28 Jun 2000, Phil Carmody wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 28 June 2000, Iso-H wrote:
> > > I have run into very wierd problem with quite simple
> > > CGI binary (coded by C++); binary just SIGSEGVs at very
> > > beginning. It seems that there is some kind of
> > > malloc problems; gdb's backtrace says so.
> >
> > Get out your binary chopping tool and reduce the code to the
> > minimal criminal. Then post it here, we have coders here, we have
> > compilers and systems here, I for one don't mind spending 10 minutes
> > checking to see if a 20 line program crashes or not, and then thinking
> > of workarounds, or whatever.
>
> I made stripped version of CGI, but obviously I stripped
> too much because original problem disappears too ;)
>
> I'll let you know if I can produce stripped but still buggy
> version of CGI binary.
Eventually I found a char array which was freed too early.
But problem was still interesting (and most misleading!)
because it appeared only with AlphaLinux & Apache...
>
>
> >
> > Phil
> >
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