Re: glibc bug?

[Peter Cordes <peter@cordes.ca>]

On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 11:10:41AM +0300, Basil K wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just to try compile example from OProfile docs with strfry(char *) function.
> Seg fault occured when I run result program.
> 
> Is there error of my system (Acer aspire 1520), or Debian etch for
> AMD64 platform?
> 
> This is listing of program:
> 
> #include <string.h>
> 
> int main()
> {
>   char string[ ] = "abcdefjh";
> 
>   strfry(string);
>   return 0;
> }

 Does compiling with -fwritable-strings make it work?  I was going to point
out how string constants were stored, etc, but then I noticed that it's a
char [] not a char *.  So maybe there's a gcc bug.  BTW, compiles ok for me
on i386 sarge and on amd64 gcc-3.4 (on a workstation I installed for a
postdoc, which is now horribly out of date.  That gcc-3.4 branch probably
isn't still being maintained, is it :(
 

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