Re: recent changes to libc on amd64

On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Steve Kargl wrote:

>
> The problem with Xorg on amd64 is known, and I believe Jason
> intends to look into the problem when his hardware arrives.
> The prolem with joe appears to be new.  Can you build libncurses
> and joe with debugging symbol to get more information?  Can
> rebuild joe with electric fence?  Also, read the malloc manpage
> for setting various flags.
>
>

Hi,

I have staticly linked joe with ncurses (both build with -g flag)  and got 
this:

# gdb joe
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This GDB was configured as "amd64-marcel-freebsd"...
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/ports/editors/joe/work/joe-3.3/joe
Processing '/usr/local/etc/joe/joerc'...
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x0000000000440554 in tgoto (
     string=0x20028f8 <Error reading address 0x20028f8: Bad address>, x=0, 
y=0)
     at 
/usr/src/lib/libncurses/../../contrib/ncurses/ncurses/tinfo/lib_tgoto.c:4
6
46          if (string == 0 || *string == '\0') {
(gdb) where
#0  0x0000000000440554 in tgoto (
     string=0x20028f8 <Error reading address 0x20028f8: Bad address>, x=0, 
y=0)
     at 
/usr/src/lib/libncurses/../../contrib/ncurses/ncurses/tinfo/lib_tgoto.c:4
6
#1  0x000000000041c808 in texec (cap=0x802000200,
     s=0x20028f8 <Error reading address 0x20028f8: Bad address>, l=0, a0=0,
     a1=33564920, a2=0, a3=0) at termcap.c:518
#2  0x000000000041cc54 in tcompile (cap=0x802000200,
     s=0x20028f8 <Error reading address 0x20028f8: Bad address>, a0=0, 
a1=0,
     a2=0, a3=0) at termcap.c:708
#3  0x000000000040ba15 in kbuild (cap=0x802000200, kmap=0x802ff6de0,
     seq=0x7fffffffe706 ".kN", bind=0x8020130e0, err=0x7fffffffe6a4,
     capseq=0x0, seql=0) at kbd.c:246
#4  0x000000000040bbb0 in kadd (cap=0x1, kmap=0x20028f8, seq=0x0, 
bind=0x0)
     at kbd.c:297
#5  0x0000000000412f3a in procrc (cap=0x802000200,
     name=0x802002b58 "/usr/local/etc/joe/joerc") at rc.c:1164
#6  0x000000000040df06 in main (argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffec58, 
envv=0x802002b58)
     at main.c:318
(gdb)



Regards,
gg.

p.s. I have tried rebuilding Xorg again but with no luck :(