I've a binary that runs on most of our servers but segfaults on one of
the servers. Further, even on this specific machine, the binary runs
successfully sometimes but segfaults most of the time. While trying to
debug this behaviour using gdb, I found out that the segfaults occurs
randomly at different places in the code. For example, once a pointer
was not initiallized to NULL (it was pointing to x8 insterad of x0) in
a constructor, even though it ran through the intialization code.
Has anyone come across this kind of behavior? Any help and/or
information sf highly appreciated.
-Naveen
Here is the configuration of the machine where the problem occurs:
isip213_[1]: g++ -v
Reading specs from /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/i386-pc-solaris2.7/3.2.1/specs
Configured with: ../gcc-3.2.1/configure --prefix=/usr/local
--with-gnu-as --with-as=/usr/local/bin/as --with-gnu-ld
--with-ld=/usr/local/bin/ld
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.2.1
isip213_[1]: uname -a
SunOS isip213.isip.msstate.edu 5.7 Generic_106542-20 i86pc i386
isip213_[1]: psrinfo -v
Status of processor 0 as of: 04/01/04 14:38:57
Processor has been on-line since 03/29/04 16:22:01.
The i386 processor operates at 826 MHz,
and has an i387 compatible floating point processor.
Status of processor 1 as of: 04/01/04 14:38:57
Processor has been on-line since 03/29/04 16:22:06.
The i386 processor operates at 826 MHz,
and has an i387 compatible floating point processor.
isip213_[1]: 5 1447
"Naveen Parihar" <pa*****@isip.msstate.edu> wrote in message
news:12**************************@posting.google.c om... I've a binary that runs on most of our servers but segfaults on one of the servers. Further, even on this specific machine, the binary runs successfully sometimes but segfaults most of the time. While trying to debug this behaviour using gdb, I found out that the segfaults occurs randomly at different places in the code. For example, once a pointer was not initiallized to NULL (it was pointing to x8 insterad of x0) in a constructor, even though it ran through the intialization code.
Has anyone come across this kind of behavior? Any help and/or information sf highly appreciated.
-Naveen
Did you step through the initialization and then the initialized pointer was
still NULL? I somehow doubt that unless your compiler is very broken. Could
it be that you´re missing an appropriate copy constructor? Without some
example code that can reproduce the problem one cannot really give a precise
answer.
Regards
Chris
"Chris Theis" <Ch*************@nospam.cern.ch> wrote in message news:<c4**********@sunnews.cern.ch>... "Naveen Parihar" <pa*****@isip.msstate.edu> wrote in message news:12**************************@posting.google.c om... I've a binary that runs on most of our servers but segfaults on one of the servers. Further, even on this specific machine, the binary runs successfully sometimes but segfaults most of the time. While trying to debug this behaviour using gdb, I found out that the segfaults occurs randomly at different places in the code. For example, once a pointer was not initiallized to NULL (it was pointing to x8 insterad of x0) in a constructor, even though it ran through the intialization code.
Has anyone come across this kind of behavior? Any help and/or information sf highly appreciated.
-Naveen
Did you step through the initialization and then the initialized pointer was still NULL? I somehow doubt that unless your compiler is very broken. Could it be that you´re missing an appropriate copy constructor? Without some example code that can reproduce the problem one cannot really give a precise answer.
Thanks for the reply.
This problem occurs while using a fairly complicated speech
recognition system. And the code base and runtime is so large that it
is not feasible to step through every single step of execution. Note
that the segfaults occurs randomly.
One of the instances of segfault occured immediately after declaring a
vector of about 10,000 singlelinkedlist. The documentation for both
Vector and SingleLinkedList is available here: http://www.isip.msstate.edu/projects...documentation/
It turns out that the last (tail) pointer of the element of vector, a
single linked list object, was not initialized to NULL. All the other
elements (singlelinkedlists) that I looked at were properly intialized
through the default constructor.
All these segfaults occur on a specific machine. We have other servers
identical (in hardware and OS) and everything runs fine on them. Also,
we share the same developement binaries (compiler, linker, etc.)
across all the machines and so, complier should not be an issue.
-Naveen
"Chris Theis" <Ch*************@nospam.cern.ch> wrote in message news:<c4**********@sunnews.cern.ch>... "Naveen Parihar" <pa*****@isip.msstate.edu> wrote in message news:12**************************@posting.google.c om... I've a binary that runs on most of our servers but segfaults on one of the servers. Further, even on this specific machine, the binary runs successfully sometimes but segfaults most of the time. While trying to debug this behaviour using gdb, I found out that the segfaults occurs randomly at different places in the code. For example, once a pointer was not initiallized to NULL (it was pointing to x8 insterad of x0) in a constructor, even though it ran through the intialization code.
Has anyone come across this kind of behavior? Any help and/or information sf highly appreciated.
-Naveen
Did you step through the initialization and then the initialized pointer was still NULL? I somehow doubt that unless your compiler is very broken. Could it be that you´re missing an appropriate copy constructor? Without some example code that can reproduce the problem one cannot really give a precise answer.
Thanks for the reply.
This problem occurs while using a fairly complicated speech
recognition system. And the code base and runtime is so large that it
is not feasible to step through every single step of execution. Note
that the segfaults occurs randomly.
One of the instances of segfault occured immediately after declaring a
vector of about 10,000 singlelinkedlist. The documentation for both
Vector and SingleLinkedList is available here: http://www.isip.msstate.edu/projects...documentation/
It turns out that the last (tail) pointer of the element of vector, a
single linked list object, was not initialized to NULL. All the other
elements (singlelinkedlists) that I looked at were properly intialized
through the default constructor.
All these segfaults occur on a specific machine. We have other servers
identical (in hardware and OS) and everything runs fine on them. Also,
we share the same developement binaries (compiler, linker, etc.)
across all the machines and so, complier should not be an issue.
-Naveen
> It turns out that the last (tail) pointer of the element of vector, a single linked list object, was not initialized to NULL. All the other elements (singlelinkedlists) that I looked at were properly intialized through the default constructor.
All these segfaults occur on a specific machine. We have other servers identical (in hardware and OS) and everything runs fine on them. Also, we share the same developement binaries (compiler, linker, etc.) across all the machines and so, complier should not be an issue.
-Naveen
Your errant server must be being bombarded by cosmic rays or other ionizing
radiation. Try lead shielding, it is cheap.
john
> It turns out that the last (tail) pointer of the element of vector, a single linked list object, was not initialized to NULL. All the other elements (singlelinkedlists) that I looked at were properly intialized through the default constructor.
All these segfaults occur on a specific machine. We have other servers identical (in hardware and OS) and everything runs fine on them. Also, we share the same developement binaries (compiler, linker, etc.) across all the machines and so, complier should not be an issue.
-Naveen
Your errant server must be being bombarded by cosmic rays or other ionizing
radiation. Try lead shielding, it is cheap.
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