Re: possible bug in libXt or libXaw
Marco Atzeri <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.cygwin.xfree |
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On 11/16/2014 7:30 AM, Mark Geisert wrote: > Marco Atzeri writes: >> this is the pointer causing the segfault >> >> (gdb) p form->form.horiz_base >> $2 = (Widget) 0x6275705f6779632f >> >> while similar pointers have a much smaller address, >> >> (gdb) p w >> $5 = (Widget) 0x60014bd50 >> >> so it that an assignment not clearing the upper >> portion of the pointer. > > $2 is not a pointer that needed partial clearing, it's a character string > "/cyg_pub". Possibly a buffer overrun somewhere? Hope the string fragment > points the way to somebody. > > ..mark > thanks for the hint, "/cyg_pub" is a directory on the root $ ls -l / |grep pub lrwxrwxrwx 1 marco Administrators 19 Jun 26 19:11 pub -> /cygdrive/e/cyg_pub where the data file was stored, however moving it to "/tmp" produce as result p ref $1 = (Widget) 0x635f7261636e5f62 aka c_racn_b that is not very meaningful to me, so the pointer corruption can be very generic. Marco -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/