13779 - startup crash under HP-UX

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect, P3, major)

Description

[jim_nance]

On an HP-UX 10.20 system using gcc 2.95.1, gtk 1.2.4, and NSPR threads
I have been getting a consistent crash during startup for the last several
days, including code I pulled at 7:00 AM EDT Sept 14.  When I run the code
in the debugger I get the following:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x7a9a63d8 in PL_strcmp (a=0x74206465 <Address 0x74206465 out of bounds>,
    b=0x7a5a04b8 "Unicode") at strcmp.c:33
33          return (PRIntn)(*((const unsigned char *)a) - *((const unsigned char
*)b));

The stack trace above the PL_strcmp function is not readable.  By putting static
counters in the code I can determine that it is NOT always the same call to
PL_strcmp that is crashing.  When the crash occurs the value of the argument
a always has the value 0x74206465.  If I stop in the code when the value of
a has this value, the debugger still can not give me a stack trace.  If I had
to guess what the problem was I would say its an NSPR thread jumping to an
invalid context, but this is only a guess.

Comment 1

[don]

Chris, who's the czar of the HP platform these days?

Comment 2

[J Shane Culpepper]

This was fixed a few days ago by adding static to the FactoryData
g_FactoryData[] declaration.

Comment 3

[leger]

MArking Verified per last comments