Re: Hi, Needs suggestions for finding and fixing stack/memory corruption when calling a function

[Fawad Lateef <fawadlateef@gmail.com>]

Hi Andrej,


On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Andrej Gelenberg
<andrej.gelenberg@udo.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> heap, stack, buffer overflow? multiple threads? It is bit difficult to
> suggest something without some code. Have you tried to use gdb or
> valgrind? (do someone know if valgrind work on arm?)
>

Thanks for replying.

There is _no_ threading only while(1) loop, we have multiple processes
communicating through pipes but this problem is happening only in one
process hence I am assuming that something local to that process is
corrupting memory.

Our root-filesystem don't have gdb support and I think valgrind is
_not_ supported on arm :(

Is there any possibility that the problem is related to some compiler
optimization or something along that line ? We are using gcc-4.2.0
based tool-chain and Linux kernel 2.6.29.

I can't post the code due to two main reasons: -- Its closed source
and its too big and I don't think that anyone wants to look at code
with around 20 cpp files and each file has hundreds of lines of code.

Regards,

Fawad Lateef

> Regards,
> Andrej Gelenberg
>
> On 05/23/2011 04:41 PM, Fawad Lateef wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I need some suggestions about how-to approach, find and fix a memory
>> corruption issue which is happening in a C/C++ very complex and large
>> code (code evolved over several years). Code is running on AT91SAM9260
>> (armv5l architecture; single processor with preemption enabled) and
>> completely in Linux user-space.
>>
>> The problem is:
>>
>> -- We are calling a function which has three integer arguments.
>> With-in that function 2nd and 3rd arguments always gets corrupted
>> while 1st argument is fine. Just before calling that function printing
>> arguments is fine.
>>
>> Now it will be good if I can get some suggestions about whats
>> happening and how-to look into this problem. I am thinking that there
>> is some memory/stack corruption happening somewhere.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> -- Fawad Lateef
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