[BusyBox] Heisenbug
Erik Andersen
andersen at codepoet.org
Fri Aug 30 13:33:03 UTC 2002
On Fri Aug 30, 2002 at 09:28:06PM +0200, Robert Schwebel wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 07:32:22PM +0200, Robert Schwebel wrote:
> > So I thought it would be a good indea to compile busybox with
> > debugging and changed DODEBUG to 'true'. Result: it works:
>
> Update: it is the -fomit-frame-pointer switch in $(OPTIMIZATIONS) which
> triggers the bug.
Most Heisenbugs occur due to either buffer overflows or
uninitialized variables. The fact that omitting -fomit-frame-pointer
"fixes" it implies this one is probably a buffer overflow...
-Erik
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