[Alpine-info] congrats and first crash!

[Dimitrios Apostolou]

At last another one getting a similar crash! I thought something was wrong 
with my setup. :-)

On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Jayakara Kini wrote:


> Hi,

>

>  I had reported this earlier and tried to debug it.  I've attached my 

> analysis.

>

>  I can easily reproduce this issue when I am saving an attachment, I 

> type a few characters for the attachment name and press TAB and it 

> crashes.


Is the crash simply a segfault or Stack Smashing Protection related? If 
you attach to gdb (or the relevant Sun debugger), do you get a 
backtrace?


>

>  I compile alpine on Solaris using Sun Studio compiler.  After reading 

> the discussion, I compiled again (on Solaris) with gcc.  Now I do not 

> see the crash!!!!

>

>  The truss output shows that string pointer passed is suddenly changed 

> from 0x80424a0 to 0x424a0.  This does look like a corruption and the 

> compiler might have a hand in it.

>

>  I still don't have the evidence though.  Continuing the investigation. 

> I'll start by replacing all 'sizeof' in the code.

>

>  Update to follow at a later time....

>

> Regards, Kini


While in my case the crash is happening clearly in pico's auto-completion 
functions, I can't by any means reproduce the crash when running pico 
standalone. Can you?


Thanks,
Dimitris