On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:06 AM, jody <jody....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > I have checked a TCP-server which i wrote with valgrind-3.4.0, > and encountered these errors: > ==15611== ERROR SUMMARY: 2 errors from 2 contexts (suppressed: 17 from 1) > ==15611== > ==15611== 1 errors in context 1 of 2: > ==15611== Syscall param socketcall.accept(addr) points to unaddressable > byte(s) > ==15611== at 0xA4BA01: accept (in /lib/libc-2.7.so) > ==15611== by 0x98D38F: (below main) (in /lib/libc-2.7.so) > ==15611== Address 0xbea43000 is not stack'd, malloc'd or (recently) free'd > ==15611== > ==15611== 1 errors in context 2 of 2: > ==15611== Syscall param socketcall.accept(addrlen_in) points to > uninitialised byte(s) > ==15611== at 0xA4BA01: accept (in /lib/libc-2.7.so) > ==15611== by 0x98D38F: (below main) (in /lib/libc-2.7.so) > ==15611== Address 0xbea4233c is on thread 1's stack > > > I simplified the server to the point where it only calls accept (see below), > and the errors still prevail. > I compile it with > g++ -g -Wall dummysrv.cpp -o dummysrv > (g++ (GCC) 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)) > > What do these messages mean and how can i fix that? > The position "below main" is a little bit vague...
I'm not sure this is the cause of the above message, but the call of accept() is not correct: the third argument of accept() is a value-result parameter, and should be initialized before passing it to accept(). Bart. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Valgrind-users mailing list Valgrind-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/valgrind-users
