Re: SIGSEGV with 2 apps with latest SVN

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 11 Dec 2008, at 20:00, Fred Kiefer wrote:

> Charles philip Chan wrote:
> > No, The app wouldn't start at all- it just segfaults. I have  
> > upgraded my
> > gnustep version, now the backtrace is different:
> >
> >
> > I have tried both the art and cairo backend and got the same
> > backtrace. Maybe the segfault is platform/OS dependent- I am using  
> > Linux
> > on a x86 machine.
>
> This surely is our best tested platform, you should never get problems
> there.
>
>
> Did you notice this line in your back trace:
> 0xb73a85d4 in objc_msg_lookup () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libobjc.so.2
>
> Is this the libobjc that you want to use? I would expect it in /usr/ 
> lib
> or /usr/local/lib. In itself this doesn't mean anything, still it is
> very strange. But then intValue_c doesn't call NSBundle. Most likely
> your stack is corrupted.

Is this a case of using an out of date copy of the base library ...  
there was one recent release where calling intValue on an empty string  
could cause a segmentation fault.