Re: segv at strcmp

["Zhu, Yi" <yi.zhu@intel.com>]

On Thu, 25 Dec 2003, umut aymakoglu wrote:

> We have hit a problem with strcmp() on UnitedLinux 1.0
> with kernel: 2.4.19 and glibc: 2.2.5.
> I am wondering if anybody has seen something like it
> or knows if already there is a patch. I do not have a
> small repro but i will try to explain:
> 
> The segv happens at memcmp() at a line like:
> 'strcmp(x, "this is 24 chars long")' where x is a char
> pointer with a length of 7 and the constant has a
> length of 24. x is located at the first 8 bytes of the
> last 16 bytes at the end of a non-contiguous shared
> memory segment. memcmp() segvs when it tries to load 8
> bytes from the "r19" register which initially has the
> address of x and points to the end of the segment when
> the segv happens.

I met the similar scenario for strchr(), it was fixed after I explicitly
adding a #include <string.h>.

> any help would be appreciated,
> thanks,
> Umut
> 
> 
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