Re: stack corruption?

[Louis LeBlanc <leblanc@keyslapper.net>]

On 06/14/05 11:44 PM, Mark Kettenis sat at the `puter and typed:
> <SNIP>
>    #0  0xff024044 in ttcpip () from /opt/oracle/8.1.7/lib/libclntsh.so.8.0
>    (gdb) bt
>    #0  0xff024044 in ttcpip () from /opt/oracle/8.1.7/lib/libclntsh.so.8.0
>    #1  0xff000470 in ttcdrv () from /opt/oracle/8.1.7/lib/libclntsh.so.8.0
>    #2  0xfeeb81e0 in nioqwa () from /opt/oracle/8.1.7/lib/libclntsh.so.8.0
>    #3  0xfed3b5cc in upirtrc () from /opt/oracle/8.1.7/lib/libclntsh.so.8.0
>    #4  0xfed8b64c in kpurcsc () from /opt/oracle/8.1.7/lib/libclntsh.so.8.0
>    #5  0xfed5b104 in kpuexecv8 () from /opt/oracle/8.1.7/lib/libclntsh.so.8.0
>    #6  0xfed5d2d4 in kpuexec () from /opt/oracle/8.1.7/lib/libclntsh.so.8.0
>    #7  0xfed9a318 in OCIStmtExecute () from /opt/oracle/8.1.7/lib/libclntsh.so.8.0
>    #8  0x000e5234 in execute_statement (connID=1649752, stmntID=1, args=0xf827a650, dbTimingRec=0xf8279b80, inOpCode=19541) at dbase.c:873
>    #9  0x0002e9f4 in handle_check (thread=0x759b70) at myprog.c:904
>    #10 0x000e3134 in spawn (arg=0x759b70) at mythread.c:195
>    #11 0xff354978 in _lwp_start () from /usr/lib/lwp/libthread.so.1
>    #12 0xff354978 in _lwp_start () from /usr/lib/lwp/libthread.so.1
>    Previous frame identical to this frame (corrupt stack?)
>    (gdb) 
> 
>    I have changed identifying names to protect the guilty, but this is
>    pretty much typical.
> 
> Oh, that's pretty harmless.  It's gdb falling off the end of the
> stack.  Ideally gdb would now that it reached the end of the stack,
> and not print the message.  But I haven't found a reliable way to do
> so for Solaris SPARC. But then I haven't really tried very hard.

Ah.  Well,  I'm glad this isn't something wrong with my code.  Problem
is it makes applying some commands to all threads difficult.

Thanks for the clarification.

Lou
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