[BusyBox] SIGSEGV problem

Erik Andersen andersen at lineo.com
Thu Jan 4 21:27:09 UTC 2001


On Thu Jan 04, 2001 at 03:14:56PM -0600, bgat at open-widgets.com wrote:
> Erik:
> 
> 
> > Hmm.  Could you dig into this further for me.  Step one, install
> > dmalloc (http://dmalloc.com/) and enable DODMALLOC in the Makefile.
> > Recompile, then run 'export
> > DMALLOC_OPTIONS=debug=0x14f47d83,inter=100,log=logfile' (wierd, I
> > know -- just do it cuz it works) and then run gdb again.  dmalloc
> > does wonderful things when looking for wierd bugs like this, and is
> > the best IMHO open source malloc debugger/mem-leak finder out there.
> > Since you can reproduce this ellusive bug, I'd really be glad to
> > have your help in finding it.
> 
> This procedure will be interesting to implement--- *everything* I'm
> doing currently is crossdevelopment.  I don't even have a shell on the
> target system (ok, I have sash-3.4, but that's it), no dynamic linker
> (not for lack of trying--- I can't find a PPC ld.so anywhere!), no
> init, nada.  Just raw electrons held together with penguin poop and
> NFS...

Lol!

> I'll see what I can do, though.


Hmm.  I suppose adding a few setenv() calls early on would 
also do the trick.

 -Erik

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