275374 - segfault in startup iwith gcc-3.3 / amd64

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 249475

(Core :: XPCOM, defect)

Description

[Florian Hars]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040924 Debian/1.7.3-1ubuntu1
Build Identifier: mozilla-source-1.7.5.tar.bz2

I downloaded the 1.7.5 source and compiled it on ubuntu 4.10 / AMD64, with gcc
(GCC) 3.3.4 (Debian 1:3.3.4-9ubuntu5), and I get:

 $ ./mozilla --debug --debugger=gdb
./run-mozilla.sh -g ./mozilla-bin --debugger=gdb
MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=.
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.:./plugins:/usr/local/lib/mre/mre-1.7.5
DISPLAY=:0.0
DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=.:/usr/local/lib/mre/mre-1.7.5
     LIBRARY_PATH=.:./components:/usr/local/lib/mre/mre-1.7.5
       SHLIB_PATH=.:/usr/local/lib/mre/mre-1.7.5
          LIBPATH=.:/usr/local/lib/mre/mre-1.7.5
       ADDON_PATH=.
      MOZ_PROGRAM=./mozilla-bin
      MOZ_TOOLKIT=
        moz_debug=1
     moz_debugger=
/usr/bin/gdb ./mozilla-bin -x /tmp/mozargs4533
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(gdb) run
Starting program: /home/hars/download/mozilla/obj/dist/bin/mozilla-bin
--debugger=gdb
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 16384 (LWP 4554)]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 16384 (LWP 4554)]
0x0000002a9898d8f0 in non-virtual thunk to nsDirectoryService::AddRef() ()
   from /home/hars/download/mozilla/obj/dist/bin/libxpcom.so
(gdb) bt
#0  0x0000002a9898d8f0 in non-virtual thunk to nsDirectoryService::AddRef() ()
   from /home/hars/download/mozilla/obj/dist/bin/libxpcom.so
#1  0x0000002a9898c864 in nsDirectoryService::QueryInterface (this=0x5a37c0,
    aIID=@0x439c20, aInstancePtr=0x2a98b678b8)
    at /home/hars/download/mozilla/xpcom/io/nsDirectoryService.cpp:560
#2  0x0000002a9898c428 in nsDirectoryService::Create (outer=0x0,
    aIID=@0x439c20, aResult=0x2a98b678b8)
    at /home/hars/download/mozilla/xpcom/io/nsDirectoryService.cpp:433
#3  0x0000002a98959fbd in NS_InitXPCOM2 (result=0x7fbffff520,
    binDirectory=0x0, appFileLocationProvider=0x5a30d0)
    at /home/hars/download/mozilla/xpcom/build/nsXPComInit.cpp:457
#4  0x000000000043733c in NS_InitXPCOM2 (result=0x7fbffff520,
    binDirectory=0x0, appFileLocationProvider=0x5a30d0)
    at /home/hars/download/mozilla/xpcom/glue/standalone/nsXPCOMGlue.cpp:178
#5  0x0000000000437b46 in GRE_Startup ()
    at /home/hars/download/mozilla/xpcom/glue/standalone/nsXPCOMGlue.cpp:482
#6  0x000000000041e924 in main (argc=2, argv=0x7fbffff628)
    at /home/hars/download/mozilla/xpfe/bootstrap/nsAppRunner.cpp:1706

If I get gcc-3.4 and g++-3.4 the compiled program works.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Compile Mozilla with gcc-3.3 on Ubuntu linux 4.10 amd64
2. Start Mozilla
3.

Actual Results:  
Mozilla segfaults

Expected Results:  
Mozilla should have started

Comment 1

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

this is a GCC bug, upgrade to 3.4.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 249475 ***