segfault

[Erik Leunissen <e dot leunissen at hccnet dot nl>]

I ran into a segfault when using gdb-6.4 from within the graphical 
debugger ddd. See below for the back trace.

My (casual) interpretation of the back trace:
It appears that somehow xstrvprintf() in utils.c is called with an empty 
string '\0' to append, upon which strlen() explodes.

I did not encounter any issues when running gdb straight (i.e. without a 
graphical driver program). So this issue may be specific to the 
combination of gdb - ddd.

Nevertheless, a segfault appears a response a bit too rough.

Sincerely,

Erik Leunissen

== back trace from core file ==

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This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db 
library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".

Core was generated by `gdb -q -fullname /usr/bin/tclsh 4282'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
Reading symbols from /lib/libncurses.so.5...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libncurses.so.5
Reading symbols from /lib/i686/libm.so.6...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/i686/libm.so.6
Reading symbols from /lib/libdl.so.2...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libdl.so.2
Reading symbols from /lib/i686/libc.so.6...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/i686/libc.so.6
Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2
Reading symbols from /lib/libthread_db.so.1...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libthread_db.so.1
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/gconv/ISO8859-1.so...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/gconv/ISO8859-1.so
#0  0x4011621b in strlen () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
(gdb) bt
#0  0x4011621b in strlen () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
#1  0x400e77d8 in vfprintf () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
#2  0x40106c62 in vasprintf () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
#3  0x08084b07 in xstrvprintf (format=0x825064e "Current source file is 
%s\n", ap=0xbfffeaf4 "\n")
    at /usr/local/src/gdb-6.4/gdb/utils.c:1070
#4  0x080861a1 in vfprintf_maybe_filtered (stream=0xa, format=0x1b01 
<Address 0x1b01 out of bounds>,
    args=0x2 <Address 0x2 out of bounds>, filter=1) at 
/usr/local/src/gdb-6.4/gdb/utils.c:2165
#5  0x08086284 in printf_filtered (format=0x825064e "Current source file 
is %s\n")
    at /usr/local/src/gdb-6.4/gdb/utils.c:2241
#6  0x080e3254 in source_info (ignore=0x0, from_tty=0) at 
/usr/local/src/gdb-6.4/gdb/source.c:594
#7  0x08083053 in execute_command (p=0x82d1fab "", from_tty=0) at 
/usr/local/src/gdb-6.4/gdb/top.c:451
#8  0x0811d67b in command_handler (command=0x82d1fa0 "info source")
    at /usr/local/src/gdb-6.4/gdb/event-top.c:508
#9  0x0811e359 in command_line_handler (rl=0x8342198 "Ø\234U\b")
    at /usr/local/src/gdb-6.4/gdb/event-top.c:793
#10 0x081c551f in rl_callback_read_char () at 
/usr/local/src/gdb-6.4/readline/callback.c:123
#11 0x0811d83b in rl_callback_read_char_wrapper (client_data=0x0)
    at /usr/local/src/gdb-6.4/gdb/event-top.c:174
#12 0x0811d1b2 in handle_file_event (event_file_desc=0) at 
/usr/local/src/gdb-6.4/gdb/event-loop.c:728
#13 0x0811c65d in process_event () at 
/usr/local/src/gdb-6.4/gdb/event-loop.c:341
#14 0x0811ce25 in gdb_do_one_event (data=0x0) at 
/usr/local/src/gdb-6.4/gdb/event-loop.c:378
#15 0x08119b5b in catch_errors (func=0x811cd10 <gdb_do_one_event>, 
func_args=0x0, errstring=0x8237ff8 "",
    mask=6) at /usr/local/src/gdb-6.4/gdb/exceptions.c:515
#16 0x080c3b64 in tui_command_loop (data=0x0) at 
/usr/local/src/gdb-6.4/gdb/tui/tui-interp.c:151
#17 0x0811a18f in current_interp_command_loop () at 
/usr/local/src/gdb-6.4/gdb/interps.c:278
#18 0x0807c1bb in captured_command_loop (data=0x0) at 
/usr/local/src/gdb-6.4/gdb/main.c:101
#19 0x08119b5b in catch_errors (func=0x807c1b0 <captured_command_loop>, 
func_args=0x0,
    errstring=0x8237ff8 "", mask=6) at 
/usr/local/src/gdb-6.4/gdb/exceptions.c:515
#20 0x0807c9c4 in captured_main (data=0xbfffeeb4) at 
/usr/local/src/gdb-6.4/gdb/main.c:829
#21 0x08119b5b in catch_errors (func=0x807c1f0 <captured_main>, 
func_args=0xbfffeeb4,
    errstring=0x8237ff8 "", mask=6) at 
/usr/local/src/gdb-6.4/gdb/exceptions.c:515
#22 0x0807c1a3 in gdb_main (args=0xbfffeeb4) at 
/usr/local/src/gdb-6.4/gdb/main.c:838
#23 0x0807c165 in main (argc=Cannot access memory at address 0x2
) at /usr/local/src/gdb-6.4/gdb/gdb.c:35

== end of message ==