[syslog-ng]syslog-ng-1.4.17 crashes

[Heinz Ekker]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 06:14:58PM +0100, Balazs Scheidler wrote:
> First of all you have linked syslog-ng 1.4 against libol 0.3. This is _not_
> recommended (and can only be done by patching syslog-ng configure script)

Oh! If I did, it must have happened by accident - but I certainly did not
change anything in the configure-script.

> The disassembly of your do_flush function shows (at least to me and I was
> watching it quite a lot) that you might have compiled libol with a buggy
> compiler. I might be wrong, but the memory slot referenced when calling
> c_format() is not initialized by the assembly function in any way (it
> is but in a later part of the function), but it is initialized by the C
> code.
> 
> Don't you happen to be using the buggy gcc 2.96 release from RedHat?

Now that you mention it:

[root@goldfinger redhat]# gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/specs
gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-110)

> The relevant part is:
[...]
> as you can see 

No, I don't ;-) I'm just a regular sysadmin, and can't make head nor
tail of assembly language, but thanks anyway - sounds like a brilliant
analysis. 

And sorry to have wasted your time... DeadRat can be a pain in the a**,
sometimes.

Heinz Ekker