On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 4:06 AM, Andrew Haley <aph@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ying lcs wrote: > >> I have a c++ application compiled using gcc. But i get this exception >> when i execute it. >> Can you please tell me how can I trouble-shoot it? > > Either > > a. Run in gdb, and look at where the buffer overflow happens, or > b. Run under Valgrid's memcheck. > > Andrew. > > Thanks. But it appears it crashes inside libc? And when I compile the same code in Ubuntu 8.04. It works. But now I do that in Ubuntu 8.10. I get this error: [Switching to Thread 0xb733f700 (LWP 16842)] 0xb7f9e430 in __kernel_vsyscall () (gdb) bt #0 0xb7f9e430 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0xb74b7880 in raise () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #2 0xb74b9248 in abort () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #3 0xb74f510d in ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #4 0xb7586558 in __fortify_fail () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #5 0xb7584680 in __chk_fail () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #6 0xb7584de8 in __realpath_chk () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #7 0x0804f914 in XPCOMGlueLoad ( xpcomFile=0xbfc9ee64 "/media/olddata/objdir/ss3/dist/bin/libxpcom.so") at /usr/include/bits/stdlib.h:46 #8 0x0804f7c5 in XPCOMGlueStartup (xpcomFile=0x0) at /home/yinglcs/firefox-3.0/mozilla/xpcom/glue/standalone/nsXPCOMGlue.cpp:70 #9 0x0804bbd0 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbfc9ff14) at /home/yinglcs/firefox-3.0/mozilla/embedding/browser/gtk/tests/TestGtkEmbed.cpp:212