Re: zlib-1.2.5 => firefox crash

2010-06-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Mike McCarty wrote: > x2...@lycos.com wrote: > > [...] > >>I thought i'd read, several years ago, that there is a way of running >>the kernel in one of the debuggers like 'gdb'. There has to be something >>better then having to re-boot for each test. :-) > > There is some low level

Re: zlib-1.2.5 => firefox crash

2010-06-18 Thread Andrew Benton
On 17/06/10 18:35, x2...@lycos.com wrote: > On 17/06/10 Andrew Benton : >> Indeed it works. Before I compiled zlib I used this sed on configure: >> >> sed -i 's/--O/--mstackrealign -O/' configure >> >> and hey presto - firefox does not segfault. At least, not yet. Adding >> -mstackrealign to zlib's

Re: zlib-1.2.5 => firefox crash

2010-06-17 Thread Mike McCarty
x2...@lycos.com wrote: [...] >I thought i'd read, several years ago, that there is a way of running >the kernel in one of the debuggers like 'gdb'. There has to be something >better then having to re-boot for each test. :-) There is some low level debugging available, but it isn't a

zlib-1.2.5 => firefox crash

2010-06-17 Thread x2164
>>> Thanks, I hadn't connected it with gcc-4.5.0. Googling on that led >>> to a very interesting thread here: >>> http://mail.madler.net/pipermail/zlib-devel_madler.net/2010-May/002277.html >>> >>> It seems zlib-1.2.5 needs the cflag -mstackrealign (not tested it yet) >>> Bruce, On

Re: zlib-1.2.5 => firefox crash

2010-06-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
x2...@lycos.com wrote: > I think someone suggested using something like "-mstack-align" on the gcc-4.5.0 command to cause the normally expected behavior. >>> Thanks, I hadn't connected it with gcc-4.5.0. Googling on that led >>> to a very interesting thread here: >>> http:

zlib-1.2.5 => firefox crash

2010-06-17 Thread x2164
>>> I think someone suggested using something like "-mstack-align" >>> on the gcc-4.5.0 command to cause the normally expected behavior. >>> >> >> Thanks, I hadn't connected it with gcc-4.5.0. Googling on that led >> to a very interesting thread here: >> http://mail.madler.net/pipermail

Re: zlib-1.2.5 => firefox crash

2010-06-17 Thread Andrew Benton
On 17/06/10 11:50, Andrew Benton wrote: > On 17/06/10 04:52, x2...@lycos.com wrote: >> >> IIRC it would seem that gcc-4.5.0 has changed its default >> behavior for stack alignment. Instead of 16 byte boundaries >> its using 32 byte boundaries. I'm not sure if this only >> appl

Re: zlib-1.2.5 => firefox crash

2010-06-17 Thread Andrew Benton
On 17/06/10 04:52, x2...@lycos.com wrote: > > Hi All, > > Saw this post a few days ago and started poking around > and google'ing. Unfortunately i didn't write down what > i was doing and this post is from a cold addled memory. > > You'll definitely need to verify anything i

RE: zlib-1.2.5 => firefox crash

2010-06-16 Thread x2164
Hi All, Saw this post a few days ago and started poking around and google'ing. Unfortunately i didn't write down what i was doing and this post is from a cold addled memory. You'll definitely need to verify anything i say in this post. IIRC it would seem that gcc-4.5.0 has

Re: zlib-1.2.5 => firefox crash

2010-06-16 Thread Nathan Coulson
> 2010/6/15 Nathan Coulson : >> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 8:25 PM, xinglp wrote: >>> I've configured libxml2-2.7.6 with --without-zlib to avoid a coredump >>> when I run xmllint. >>> I'm using   zlib-1.2.5 >>> >>> 2010/6/12 Andrew Benton : Hello world I've been using zlib-1.2.5 for a few d

Re: zlib-1.2.5 => firefox crash

2010-06-15 Thread xinglp
Then zlib or libxml error? 2010/6/15 Nathan Coulson : > On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 8:25 PM, xinglp wrote: >> I've configured libxml2-2.7.6 with --without-zlib to avoid a coredump >> when I run xmllint. >> I'm using   zlib-1.2.5 >> >> 2010/6/12 Andrew Benton : >>> Hello world >>> I've been using zlib

Re: zlib-1.2.5 => firefox crash

2010-06-14 Thread Nathan Coulson
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 8:25 PM, xinglp wrote: > I've configured libxml2-2.7.6 with --without-zlib to avoid a coredump > when I run xmllint. > I'm using   zlib-1.2.5 > > 2010/6/12 Andrew Benton : >> Hello world >> I've been using zlib-1.2.5 for a few days and something I've noticed is >> that Fire

Re: zlib-1.2.5 => firefox crash

2010-06-11 Thread xinglp
I've configured libxml2-2.7.6 with --without-zlib to avoid a coredump when I run xmllint. I'm using zlib-1.2.5 2010/6/12 Andrew Benton : > Hello world > I've been using zlib-1.2.5 for a few days and something I've noticed is > that Firefox has become quite crashy (particularly when I try to > do

zlib-1.2.5 => firefox crash

2010-06-11 Thread Andrew Benton
Hello world I've been using zlib-1.2.5 for a few days and something I've noticed is that Firefox has become quite crashy (particularly when I try to download something). Thunderbird has also become crashy, there are some emails which cause it to crash as soon as I try to view them. Both Firefox