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Re: err = noErr; // Intel binary (only) crashes here
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Re: err = noErr; // Intel binary (only) crashes here


  • Subject: Re: err = noErr; // Intel binary (only) crashes here
  • From: "Kyle Sluder" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 03:34:17 -0400

Apparently there's an err defined in libSystem.dylib, as the linker is
complaining about.

Try renaming your variable to myErr and see what happens.

--Kyle Sluder

On 9/2/07, Robert Purves <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> An apparent bug in gcc and/or Darwin, demonstrable in half a dozen
> lines of code, and leading to a crash. Am I missing something, or is
> it time to visit bugreport.apple.com?
>
> $ cat bug_demo.c
>
> #include <Carbon/Carbon.h>
> OSStatus err;
> int main( void )
> {
>          SysBeep( 1 ); // any Carbon function
>         err = noErr; // Intel binary (only) crashes here
>          return 0;
> }
>
> $ gcc bug_demo.c -framework Carbon -g && ./a.out
> Bus error
>
> EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
> KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x900dd686
>
> Thread 0 Crashed:
> 0    main + 32 (bug_demo.c:7)
> 1    _start + 216
> 2    start + 41
>
>
> 0x900dd686 seems an unlikely address for a global. Is there something
> weird about err? Changing the declaration to a definition:
> OSStatus err = 1;
> suggests the answer "Very weird indeed"
>
> $ gcc bug_demo.c -framework Carbon -g && ./a.out
> /usr/bin/ld: warning multiple definitions of symbol _err
> /var/tmp//cc4X2C6Z.o definition of _err in section (__DATA,__data)
> /usr/lib/gcc/i686-apple-darwin8/4.0.1/../../../libSystem.dylib
> (err.So) definition of _err
>
>
> $ gcc --version
> i686-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1 (GCC) 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build
> 5367)
>
> Robert P.
>
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