> Hi,
> Got an app that coredumps and the app developer is
> blaming the O/S install as the problem.  This is the
> truss output (last part shown):
> 
>     Incurred fault #6, FLTBOUNDS  %pc = 0x0001C88C
>   siginfo: SIGSEGV SEGV_MAPERR addr=0xFF2707B0
>   Received signal #11, SIGSEGV [default]
>     siginfo: SIGSEGV SEGV_MAPERR addr=0xFF2707B0
> is is the pstack output:

Look, right there your can see that the crash has been caused by a SEGV, which 
is a segmentation fault. As soon as you see that, it's game over: what it means 
is that a piece of code tried to access an address outside of his process 
space. This usually happens with pointers, often when a function accesses a 
struct which either contains a bogus value, or a NULL pointer.

So either the developer of the app is not very savvy with programming on 
UNIX(R), or they're giving you a bunch of bulls**t to get rid of you in a 
convenient way.

Vendors like finger pointing, but all that does is make them lose business...
 
 
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