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From: "J. Mayer" <l_indien@magic.fr>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Segmentation fault with 0.50 and 0.51 and fedora core ls
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 14:14:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1073049292.21563.5.camel@rapid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1073018837.4731.58.camel@intrepid>

On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 05:47, Michael Torrie wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 20:26, J. Mayer wrote:
> > You're right, this is the right explanation.
> > I've already seen this problem, but didn't solve it, with a recent
> > Debian using glibc 2.3...
> > The glibc 2.3 signal context structure isn't the same that the one used
> > in glibc 2.2. This makes qemu think that the emulated program is doing
> > invalid access while it should detect some valid write access to code
> > pages.
> > 
> > I'm surprised that you were able to compile qemu with this glibc. When I
> > tried to use glibc 2.3 on PPC, qemu failed to compile, because the
> > structure field names also changed. Are your headers fully synchronised
> > with your libc ?
> 
> qemu was compiled on my yellowdog ppc box, which doesn't use the nptl
> glibc-2.3.3.  I think it's still glibc-2.3.1, without nptl.

May the changes has been made between glibc 2.3.1 and following versions
? Strange idea... I have to check this...

> > I don't believe it's a thread-scheme problem, because qemu don't use
> > threads. Or it may be some other glibc definitions or structure padding
> > or alignment which aren't the same than in the regular glibc...
> 
> I guess I'll have to try downloading a non-nptl x86 glibc and try that. 
> But it would be nice to figure out how to get the nptl glibc working
> with qemu (even in non-nptl mode, since nptl would depend on the kernel
> support).

Well, you may rebuild qemu as a static binary on your yellowdog
distribution. If it compiles without a problem, you'll win :-)
It seems really more simple than trying to make two glibc available on
your system...

-- 
J. Mayer <l_indien@magic.fr>
Never organized

  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-02 15:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-02  2:52 [Qemu-devel] Segmentation fault with 0.50 and 0.51 and fedora core ls Michael Torrie
2004-01-02  3:26 ` J. Mayer
2004-01-02  4:47   ` Michael Torrie
2004-01-02 13:14     ` J. Mayer [this message]
2004-01-02 22:19       ` Michael Torrie
2004-01-03  0:23         ` J. Mayer

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