----- Original Message -----
From: "Vikram" <vvikram_at_stanford.edu>
To: <curl-library_at_lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 3:02 PM
Subject: Re: segfault with gzip encoding support

>
> > You're using the default stack size in that sample code. It's probably
> > different on FreeBSD vs. Linux, which is why it works on the one but not
> > the other. Try using pthread_attr_setstacksize() to set a large stack
> > (try at least 128 KiB to be safe) for each thread and see if that helps.
>
> You are right. I set the stacksize using pthread_atter_setstacksize to
> (128*1024) and it works.
>
> I further experimented with the stack size. Surprising that 65536
> [64*1024] doesn't work and segfault but anything greater than that works
> [including 65537...]. Why is this?
Because you're apparently overwriting something different then. Whatever you
overwrote didn't cause a crash, just data corruption.
>
> > Also, make sure you're linking with a thread safe libc.
>
> Yes. I do this; links with libc_r in freebsd.
You are aware that FreeBSD requires more than just that right? You
need -pthread (or -kthread) and -D_THREAD_SAFE

Dominick Meglio

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Received on 2003-12-24