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Message-id: <FB9D99E4-2058-4D66-A618-5A04444840F0@mac.com> Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2013 21:45:40 -0600 From: James Gregurich <bayoubengal@....com> To: musl@...ts.openwall.com Subject: Re: mistake in powerpc clone.s? If you want me to try a patch, let me know. BTW: I have an actual crash in my app that appears to be a stack corruption. I was following up on that message to see if it was relevant to the crash. -James On Dec 26, 2013, at 9:42 PM, Rich Felker <dalias@...ifal.cx> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 09:13:59PM -0600, James Gregurich wrote: >> >> >> When I debug my app in gdb, I consistently get “Backtrace stopped: >> previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?)” at the lower >> end of the backtrace. I set break points at each function in the >> back trace and that message persists up to the __clone() invocation. >> until that line that I pointed out, the backtrace is normal. Once >> that instruction is executed, the backtrace is permanently broken >> for that thread. > > In the backtrace for a thread other than the main thread, it's normal > and expected for the backtrace to end at __clone; it's where the > thread started. The "corrupt stack" message is unwanted (musl should > be arranging for the frame pointer to be zero so that debuggers > recognize that there's nothing else on the stack, and maybe this needs > fixing) but I don't think it's necessarily indicative of any bug. > > Rich
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