Re: strstr broken on alpha GNU/Linux

[Mike Frysinger]

On Wednesday, September 08, 2010 16:36:13 Eric Blake wrote:
> I received an off-list report of a test-strstr failure on m4 1.4.15:
> 
> Linux xxx 2.6.34-gentoo-r1 #1 SMP Sun Aug 8 17:45:07 MDT 2010 alpha
> GNU/Linux
> gcc (Gentoo 4.4.3-r2 p1.2) 4.4.3
> 
> /bin/sh: line 1: 30207 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) EXEEXT=''
> srcdir='.' LOCALE_FR='fr_FR' LOCALE_FR_UTF8='fr_FR.UTF-8'
> LIBSIGSEGV='/usr/local/lib/libsigsegv.a -lc' LOCALE_FR='fr_FR'
> LOCALE_TR_UTF8='tr_TR.UTF-8' LOCALE_FR='fr_FR'
> LOCALE_FR_UTF8='fr_FR.UTF-8' LOCALE_JA='ja_JP'
> LOCALE_ZH_CN='zh_CN.GB18030' LOCALE_FR_UTF8='fr_FR.UTF-8'
> LOCALE_FR='fr_FR' LOCALE_FR_UTF8='fr_FR.UTF-8'
> PATH='/local/build/cc/m4-1.4.15/build-aux':"$PATH"
> PATH='/local/build/cc/m4-1.4.15/build-aux':"$PATH" MAKE='make'
> LOCALE_FR='fr_FR' LOCALE_FR_UTF8='fr_FR.UTF-8' LOCALE_JA='ja_JP'
> LOCALE_ZH_CN='zh_CN.GB18030' "$tst" > test-strstr.log-t 2>&1
> FAIL: test-strstr
> 
> I'm not sure which version of glibc is running on this platform, but it
> seems like we should be working around this bug (and also reporting it
> to glibc, if it hasn't yet been fixed there).  I'm also trying to see if
> I can log in to that machine and reproduce precisely which search is
> causing the out-of-bounds reference from glibc's strstr implementation.

if you cant, then i have Gentoo alpha systems as well i can add you to
-mike

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