* Re: [Caml-list] Closer on the Mysterious bug
@ 2005-12-12 4:27 Jonathan T Bryant
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From: Jonathan T Bryant @ 2005-12-12 4:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Wait. Got it. One pitfall of the native code compilers: they don't
check for stack overflow. It just turns into a segfault. When
compiled to bytecode it crashed with a Stack_overflow exception. I
figured this out by chance: I ran into the same problem on another
program and made the connection...
Jonathan T Bryant wrote:
>Everyone,
>
>Now I've fixed the Unix_error(12, "accept, "") bug: I thought passing 0
>to select made in wait indefinitely, so I inadvertently created a race
>condition. I set it to 0 on all of the calls and that bug disappeared.
> Also, I'm catching all of the exceptions and printing out a message
>when I do, but they are closing as (or, for that matter, when)
>expected. All that's left is the segfault. It still occurs at random
>times: sometimes before any connections are established, sometimes
>after all the connections have terminated, and sometimes right in the
>middle. Sometimes it even freezes for a moment (about 2 sec) before it
>crashes. GDB says the segfault is comming from fdset_to_fdlist(),
>which leads me to Unix.select. Here's the source of that C function
>since not everybody will have the same version of OCaml as me (OCaml
>3.08.3):
>
>static value fdset_to_fdlist(value fdlist, fd_set *fdset)
>{
> value l;
> value res = Val_int(0);
>
> Begin_roots2(l, res);
> for (l = fdlist; l != Val_int(0); l = Field(l, 1)) {
> int fd = Int_val(Field(l, 0));
> if (FD_ISSET(fd, fdset)) {
> value newres = alloc_small(2, 0);
> Field(newres, 0) = Val_int(fd);
> Field(newres, 1) = res;
> res = newres;
> }
> }
> End_roots();
> return res;
>}
>
>Any ideas?
>
>BTW, If you need to look at my updated code, it's available at
>http://jonboy.isa-geek.com/
>
>--Jonathan
>
>-----------------------
>--Jonathan Bryant
> jtbryant@valdosta.edu
> AIM: JonBoy3182
>
> OAS AAS LLS
> ZG214
>
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