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I have an application ported on Windows (2k, 2003), Solaris (9,10) and
HPUX (11.i). The application crashes only on HPUX in setlocale() with
SIGBUS.
The stack looks like:

#0 0x425160 in setlocale+0x98 ()
#1 0x2e52ac in get_charset (_charset=0x79c7c6a8
"\303z4\037\306\016\203c") at i18n.c:330
#2 0x478ff0 in CLIServer:mlch2ch::get_XMLTranscoder (this=0x79c7460c)
at xmlch2ch.h:39
.................................................. .................................................. .....

Of course, the higher frames than #0 are inside our code. The last code
line is

crt_locale = strdup(setlocale(LC_CTYPE, NULL));

The linking command is:
aCC -Wl,+s -o nidappsrvd -g0 -AA +DAportable -L. -L/usr/lib -L<some of
ours library path, including ../../thirdparty/Xerces2.7/hpux/lib> -mt
<objects> -Wl,-a,shared -lpthread -lnsl -lxti -lm -lc -lxerces-c
-Wl,-a,archive -<our libs> -lssl -lcrypto

What is wrong?

Thank you in advance

Radu

r.darlea@gmail.com wrote:
> I have an application ported on Windows (2k, 2003), Solaris (9,10) and
> HPUX (11.i). The application crashes only on HPUX in setlocale() with
> SIGBUS.
> The stack looks like:
>
> #0 0x425160 in setlocale+0x98 ()
> #1 0x2e52ac in get_charset (_charset=0x79c7c6a8
> "\303z4\037\306\016\203c") at i18n.c:330
> #2 0x478ff0 in CLIServer:mlch2ch::get_XMLTranscoder (this=0x79c7460c)
> at xmlch2ch.h:39
> .................................................. .................................................. ....
>
> Of course, the higher frames than #0 are inside our code. The last code
> line is
>
> crt_locale = strdup(setlocale(LC_CTYPE, NULL));

Check if you have the latest patch installed for libc.

--vishwas.

I have PHCO_31903 applied. I will install PHCO_33711.

Radu

I applied PHCO_33711 (and the depedencies). The same crash is occuring,
with the same stack (except setlocale+0x84() instead of
setlocale+0x98() ).

Radu

p.s. I also rebooted machine after installing the patch.

r.darlea@gmail.com writes:

> The linking command is:
> aCC -Wl,+s -o nidappsrvd -g0 -AA +DAportable -L. -L/usr/lib -L<some of
> ours library path, including ../../thirdparty/Xerces2.7/hpux/lib> -mt
> <objects> -Wl,-a,shared -lpthread -lnsl -lxti -lm -lc -lxerces-c
> -Wl,-a,archive -<our libs> -lssl -lcrypto

This isn't a good link like -- it leaves "-a archive" hanging,
so you link both libc.sl and libc.a (there is a final -lc added by
the compiler driver).

Also, linking system libraries before application ones is not
very kosher.

Try:

aCC -Wl,+s -o nidappsrvd -g0 -AA +DAportable -L. \
-L<your-lib-dirs> \
-mt <objects> -lxerces-c \
-Wl,-a,archive -l<our libs> -lssl -lcrypto -Wl,-a,shared \
-lnsl -lxti # none of -lm, -lpthread, -lc are necessary here

Cheers,
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Remove /-nsp/ for email.

Thx for the hint. Unfortunately, the result persists stubbornly. The
same crash occurs quite quickly. At least now it is rather
"reproducible" than intermittent.

Radu

r.darlea@gmail.com wrote:
> crt_locale = strdup(setlocale(LC_CTYPE, NULL));

I cannot say I know anything about setlocale, but the HP-UX manpage
says this:

Setting the Locale of a Program
To set the program's locale for category, setlocale() accepts
one of the following values as the locale argument: locale name,
C, POSIX, or "" (the empty string). The actions prescribed by
these values are as follows:

I don't see NULL in there.

rick jones
--
Process shall set you free from the need for rational thought.
these opinions are mine, all mine; HP might not want them anyway...
feel free to post, OR email to rick.jones2 in hp.com but NOT BOTH...

Rick Jones wrote:
> r.darlea@gmail.com wrote:
>> crt_locale = strdup(setlocale(LC_CTYPE, NULL));
>
> I cannot say I know anything about setlocale, but the HP-UX manpage
> says this:
>
> Setting the Locale of a Program
> To set the program's locale for category, setlocale() accepts
> one of the following values as the locale argument: locale name,
> C, POSIX, or "" (the empty string). The actions prescribed by
> these values are as follows:
>
> I don't see NULL in there.

Even though it is not explicit, it does mention the NULL usage.

! Querying the Locale of a Program
! setlocale() queries the current NLS environment pertaining to
! category, if the value of locale is NULL. The query operation
! does not change the environment.
!
!...
!
! To query a user's locale:
! char *ch = setlocale(LC_ALL, NULL);

--vishwas

r.darlea@gmail.com wrote:
> Thx for the hint. Unfortunately, the result persists stubbornly. The
> same crash occurs quite quickly. At least now it is rather
> "reproducible" than intermittent.

Why don't you file a bug report with HP ?

--vishwas

Well, I look over the hp.com and itrc.hp.com, but franckly I wasn't
able to find HOW to fill a bug... Sorry, maybe it looks stupid. Radu