Busybox awk throws glibc failure if using standalone/preferred applet feature

[Tito]

On Saturday 11 August 2012 18:20:29 Harald Becker wrote:
> Hi Tito !
> 
> >GNU C Library (Debian EGLIBC 2.11.3-3) stable release version 2.11.3,
> >Compiled by GNU CC version 4.4.5.
> >Compiled on a Linux 2.6.32 system on 2012-02-13.
> >
> >./busybox
> >BusyBox v1.21.0.git (2012-08-10 21:15:09 CEST) multi-call binary.
> >BusyBox is copyrighted by many authors between 1998-2012.
> 
> Ok, you definitely use older versions than I. As far as I know
> everything was fine on my side using comparable versions. Looks to me
> that this preferred applet feature depends on something which changed
> on newer gcc/glibc/kernel.
> 
> ... but as all other software on this computer is build with this gcc
> and linked against this version of glibc, I do not like to mix up
> versions for Busybox only. I'm more interested to find the reason for
> failure and get it fixed.
> 
> >Did you recompile for the updated libc (maybe it is needed)?
> 
> Fresh recompile of Busybox. Several times. I even grab snapshot of
> same date as your binary above ... recompile ... same kind of
> failure only displayed addresses in error dump differ.
> 

Hi
I think some strace or gdb or valgrind is needed
to see what this memory refers to.

Ciao,
Tito
> --
> Harald
>