https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=602
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What |Removed |Added
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Status|UNCONFIRMED |RESOLVED
Resolution| |INVALID
------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-02-08 16:19 -------
Invalid accoding to previous comment. Works as follows:
[gbeauchesne@thalys dso]$ gcc -fPIC -c junk2.c
[gbeauchesne@thalys dso]$ gcc -shared -o junk2.so junk2.o
[gbeauchesne@thalys dso]$ gcc main.c ./junk2.so
[gbeauchesne@thalys dso]$ ./a.out
sys_errlist[2]: No such file or directory
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status: RESOLVED
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description:
Sytem is installed from "Mandrake Linux release 9.0 (dolphin)" CDs
Expected output:
sys_errlist[2]: No such file or directory
Current output:
bogus sys_errlist
Details:
$ cat main.c
int main()
{
return test();
}
$ cat junk2.c
#include <stdio.h>
test()
{
const char *s = sys_errlist[2];
if (s) {
printf("sys_errlist[2]: %s\n", s);
} else {
fprintf(stderr, "bogus sys_errlist\n");
return 1;
}
return 0;
}
$ gcc -g -c -fPIC junk2.c
$ ld -shared -o junk2.so junk2.o
$ gcc -g main.c ./junk2.so
$ ./a.out
bogus sys_errlist
$ gdb a.out
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(gdb) b main
Breakpoint 1 at 0x80484a6: file main.c, line 3.
(gdb) r
Breakpoint 1, main () at main.c:3
3 return test();
(gdb) step
test () at junk2.c:5
5 const char *s = sys_errlist[2];
(gdb) x/10i $pc
0x400133c6 <test+18>: mov 0x14(%ebx),%eax
0x400133cc <test+24>: mov 0x8(%eax),%edx
0x400133cf <test+27>: mov %edx,0xfffffffc(%ebp)
0x400133d2 <test+30>: cmpl $0x0,0xfffffffc(%ebp)
0x400133d6 <test+34>: je 0x400133f2 <test+62>
0x400133d8 <test+36>: add $0xfffffff8,%esp
0x400133db <test+39>: mov 0xfffffffc(%ebp),%eax
0x400133de <test+42>: push %eax
0x400133df <test+43>: lea 0xffffef47(%ebx),%edx
0x400133e5 <test+49>: mov %edx,%eax
(gdb) stepi
(gdb) p/a $eax
$1 = 0x4013c0e0 <sys_siglist>
(gdb) ### should have been sys_errlist !!!
(gdb) n
6 if (s) {
(gdb) p s
$2 = 0x0
(gdb) p &sys_errlist
$4 = (<data variable, no debug info> *) 0x4013eb60
(gdb) x/3x 0x4013eb60
0x4013eb60 <sys_errlist>: 0x401369d3 0x401369db 0x401369f3
(gdb) x/s 0x401369f3
0x401369f3 <in6addr_loopback+8011>: "No such file or directory"
(gdb) c
bogus sys_errlist
Program exited with code 01.
(gdb) quit
Workaround: relinking junk2.so with '-lc' magically cures the bug:
$ ld -shared -o junk2.so junk2.o -lc
$ ./a.out
sys_errlist[2]: No such file or directory
