Re: [Valgrind-users] helgrind segfaulting

[Yasushi S. <ys...@hp...>]

Julian Seward wrote:

>On Tuesday 20 May 2003 10:24 pm, Nicholas Nethercote wrote:
>  
>
>>On Tue, 20 May 2003, Yasushi Saito wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>Here's a really simple program:
>>>
>>>#include <netdb.h>
>>>int main()
>>>{
>>>    gethostbyname("www.yahoo.com");
>>>}
>>>
>>>When I compile this program on Redhat 8 (glibc-2.2.93-5, gcc-3.2-7) and
>>>run it under helgrind (1.9.6), it dumps core.
>>>
>>>By the way, this problem doesn't happen with valgrind 1.9.3, but it does
>>>with 1.9.5. Any help is appreciated..
>>>      
>>>
>>I tried it under 1.9.6 and the current HEAD on RH 7.1 and it worked
>>fine... hmm.
>>    
>>
>
>Also works ok on SuSE 8.2.  You say -lpthread in your command line; if
>you remove that does it make any difference?
>
Helgrind runs fine without -pthread. Here the point of segfault, 
according to gdb:

#0  0x400182b3 in vgSkin_dup_extra_and_update (err=0x40c3a018)
    at hg_main.c:2288
2288       *new_extra = *((HelgrindError*)VG_(get_error_extra)(err));

Thanks,
yaz