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Re: getcontext() -> Bus error?
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Re: getcontext() -> Bus error?


  • Subject: Re: getcontext() -> Bus error?
  • From: Edd Dawson <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:43:22 +0000

Kevin Van Vechten wrote:

On Jan 31, 2008, at 6:52 PM, Edd Dawson wrote:
int main(void)
{
ucontext_t ctx;
getcontext(&ctx);
return 0;
}
edd:guff developer$ gcc getcontext.c -o getcontext -W -Wall -ansi -pedantic
edd:guff developer$ ./getcontext
Bus error
edd:guff developer$


Why the bus error? What am I doing wrong?

This is a known issue where getcontext(3) is writing past the end of the ucontext_t struct when _XOPEN_SOURCE is not defined (rdar://problem/5578699). As a workaround, define _XOPEN_SOURCE before including ucontext.h.

That seems to have stopped the bus error -- thanks! -- but now I'm getting what I believe is fishy behaviour from swapcontext(). The following program prints "about to swapcontext()..." indefinitely.


#define _XOPEN_SOURCE
#include <ucontext.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

void die(const char *msg)
{
    perror(msg);
    exit(666);
}

void f()
{
    puts("in f()!");
}

int main()
{
    char stack[4096];
    ucontext_t ctx;
    ucontext_t ctx2;

    if (getcontext(&ctx) == -1)
        die("getcontext failed\n");

    if (getcontext(&ctx2) == -1)
        die("getcontext failed\n");

    ctx2.uc_stack.ss_sp = stack;
    ctx2.uc_stack.ss_size = sizeof stack;
    ctx2.uc_link = 0;

    makecontext(&ctx2, &f, 0);

    puts("about to swapcontext()...");
    if (swapcontext(&ctx, &ctx2) == -1)
        die("swapcontext failed\n");

    return 0;
}

Again, this behaves as expected on my Linux machine.

I don't suppose there's a way for "regular people" to see rdar data?

Kind regards,

Edd


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