Any chance to run your program through purify? This would most certainly
show you the memory overwrite where it happens.

Cyrill

--On Freitag, 5. September 2003 14:41 +0200 Daniel Stenberg
<daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Jeff Pohlmeyer wrote:
>
>> I am trying to run curl_multi on a separate thread from inside a gtk
>> program. ( Currently it is about 11,000 lines of pascal-flavored
>> spaghetti. )
>>
>> I keep getting a lot of SIGSEGV's that look like the one below.
>
> I can't say I realize what the problem is, nor have I seen it before.
>
>> These crashes don't always occur in exactly the same place every time,
>> but it is almost always when some function in hostip.c calls some
>> function in hash.c , and passes it a 0xFFFFFFF pointer.
>
>> Curl_hash_clean_with_criterium (h=$83a6948, user=$bf7ff370,
>> comp=$4005d340 <hostcache_timestamp_remove at hostip.c:170>) at
>> hash.c:248
>>
>> 248 if (comp(user, ((curl_hash_element *) CURL_LLIST_VALP(le))->ptr)) {
>>
>> (gdb) print le
>> $1 = (^curl_llist_element) $fffffffd
>
> This shows that at this point the hash is damaged. The 'le' should be a
> pointed to a valid list element struct.
>
> I've taken some time to "demacrofy" the hash.c source a bit to better
> understand it (commit pending), and the above line has then been
> converted to:
>
> curl_hash_element *he = le->ptr;
> if (comp(user, he->ptr)) {
>
> ... which doesn't explain much more in this case though, since 'le'
> itself is bad!
>
> This looks like a case of memory being overwritten, but it is really hard
> for me to say that this is a libcurl matter or something your application
> does by itself.
>
> I guess you can't repeat this problem with a much smaller and stand-alone
> plain-C program?
>
> --
> Daniel Stenberg -- curl: been grokking URLs since 1998
>
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