Jan, any luck with this?

Tim.

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 06:58:51PM -0700, Tim Bunce wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 03:26:29PM -0700, Jan Dubois wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Jan Dubois wrote:
> > > On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, Elliot Shank wrote:
> > > > Using Strawberry Perl 5.10.0.4, t/50-errno.t crashes perl during test
> > > > 8. I tracked it down to r834, it works in r833 and crashes up through
> > > > the current r847.
> > > 
> > > I can reproduce the problem too (with MSC instead of GCC).  It seems to 
> > > happen
> > > in the SvOK() test in this part of the code:
> > > 
> > >     /* Should we calculate the caller or can we reuse the 
> > > caller_subr_entry?
> > >      * Sometimes we'll have a caller_subr_entry but it won't have the 
> > > name yet.
> > >      * For example if the caller is an xsub that's callback into perl.
> > >      */
> > >     if (profile_findcaller             /* user wants us to calculate each 
> > > time */
> > >     || !caller_subr_entry                     /* we don't have a caller 
> > > struct */
> > >     || !caller_subr_entry->called_subpkg_pv   /* we don't have caller 
> > > details  */
> > >     || !SvOK(caller_subr_entry->called_subnam_sv)
> > > 
> > > The stack trace is:
> > > 
> > >   subr_entry_setup(interpreter * 0x015d3fc4, cop * 0x01b806d8, 
> > > subr_entry_st * 0x00000000) line 2433 + 26 bytes
> > >   pp_subcall_profiler(interpreter * 0x015d3fc4, int 0x00000000) line 2556 
> > > + 15 bytes
> > >   pp_entersub_profiler(interpreter * 0x015d3fc4) line 2488 + 13 bytes
> > > 
> > > caller_subr_entry->called_subnam_sv doesn't look like a valid SV*, but
> > > I can access all the fields from the debugger, so I'm not sure why
> > > this is generating an access violation. Or maybe I'm reading the
> > > disassembled code incorrectly; I didn't disable -O2 yet. I can have
> > > another look tomorrow, but I thought maybe the exact location gives
> > > you enough hints to understand what might be going wrong.
> > 
> > Ok, I was confused. caller_subr_entry->called_subnam_sv is actually
> > NULL, explaining the access violation. I was looking at
> > caller_subr_entry->caller_subnam_sv, which seemed to contain invalid
> > data, but at least pointed to readable memory.
> > 
> > I added a checl to the condition above for
> > 
> >       || !caller_subr_entry->called_subnam_sv
> > 
> > before testing for SvOK(), but then the crash happened again and
> > caller_subr_entry->called_subnam_sv turned out to be 1.
> > 
> > I don't quite understand how this can happen; any ideas what I should be
> > looking at?
> 
> Nope. There's no way that I can see for called_subnam_sv to be 1.
> I figure it's a compiler bug or a memory corruption.
> Try with -O disabled.
> 
> I've seen that test die sometimes, but only when running "make prove"
> which does a prove -j 9 and I can't reproduce it now.
> 
> Using perl -Mblib t/50-errno.t
> try with some options disabled (largest subset of leave=0:blocks=0:stmts=0)
> then try cutting down the test file as small as possible,
> and then send me a trace file. Say level 9.
> 
> Thanks!

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