Re: [OMPI devel] Buffer Overflow Error

2006-09-25 Thread Brian Barrett
Following up on an old thread from the list. The error was being thrown by the FORTIFY_SOURCE option that Dave had used (actually, RPM added, I believe) that does some bounds checking on C functions. There was an erroneous size value being passed to a call to snprintf() that was larger than the b

Re: [OMPI devel] Buffer Overflow Error

2006-08-31 Thread Brian Barrett
What facilities are you using to detect the buffer overflow? We've seen no such issues in our testing and I'd be surprised if there was an issue in that code path. Valgrind and friends don't show any issues on our test machines, so without more detail, I'm afraid we really can't fix the issue you

[OMPI devel] Buffer Overflow Error

2006-08-24 Thread Dave Rogers
I just compiled the latest version on my machine and ran a dumb test - mpirun without any arguments. This generated a buffer overflow error! Error message (reproducible with different mem. addr.s): [ /home/dave/rpmbuild ] $ mpirun *** buffer overflow detected ***: mpirun terminated === Backtr