Hi, libio enabled glibc, gcc 3.0, static binaries die in _hurd_stack_setup at start up time. I think the code is gcc generated, probably for the vararg.
Here is the relevant debug info. I am not too familiar with that code gcc generates for what type of function invocation etc. Maybe the vararg requires some setup on the stack in static-start.S? Thanks, Marcus Program received signal EXC_BAD_ACCESS, Could not access memory. 0x0804849b in _hurd_stack_setup (argc=0) at ../sysdeps/mach/hurd/i386/init-first.c:317 317 in ../sysdeps/mach/hurd/i386/init-first.c (gdb) quit The program is running. Exit anyway? (y or n) n Not confirmed. (gdb) info reg eax 0x0 0 ecx 0x0 0 edx 0x0 0 ebx 0x0 0 esp 0x1000fd0 0x1000fd0 ebp 0x1000ff8 0x1000ff8 esi 0x0 0 edi 0x0 0 eip 0x804849b 0x804849b eflags 0x10202 66050 cs 0x17 23 ss 0x1f 31 ds 0x1f 31 es 0x1f 31 fs 0x1f 31 gs 0x1f 31 fctrl 0x0 0 fstat 0x0 0 ftag 0x0 0 fiseg 0x0 0 fioff 0x0 0 foseg 0x0 0 fooff 0x0 0 fop 0x0 0 (gdb) disas $pc Dump of assembler code for function _hurd_stack_setup: 0x8048494 <_hurd_stack_setup>: push %ebp 0x8048495 <_hurd_stack_setup+1>: mov %esp,%ebp 0x8048497 <_hurd_stack_setup+3>: push %ebx 0x8048498 <_hurd_stack_setup+4>: sub $0x24,%esp 0x804849b <_hurd_stack_setup+7>: mov 0x8(%ebp),%eax 0x804849e <_hurd_stack_setup+10>: mov %eax,0xfffffff4(%ebp) 0x80484a1 <_hurd_stack_setup+13>: mov $0x804844a,%edx 0x80484a6 <_hurd_stack_setup+18>: lea 0xffffffd8(%ebp),%eax 0x80484a9 <_hurd_stack_setup+21>: sub %eax,%edx 0x80484ab <_hurd_stack_setup+23>: lea 0xfffffff8(%ebp),%ecx 0x80484ae <_hurd_stack_setup+26>: movb $0xb9,(%eax) 0x80484b1 <_hurd_stack_setup+29>: mov %ecx,0x1(%eax) 0x80484b4 <_hurd_stack_setup+32>: movb $0xe9,0x5(%eax) 0x80484b8 <_hurd_stack_setup+36>: mov %edx,0x6(%eax) 0x80484bb <_hurd_stack_setup+39>: mov $0x80d28e0,%ebx 0x80484c0 <_hurd_stack_setup+44>: call 0x804f220 <__mach_init> 0x80484c5 <_hurd_stack_setup+49>: cmp $0x80d28f0,%ebx 0x80484cb <_hurd_stack_setup+55>: jae 0x80484dd <_hurd_stack_setup+73> 0x80484cd <_hurd_stack_setup+57>: lea 0x0(%esi),%esi 0x80484d0 <_hurd_stack_setup+60>: call *(%ebx) 0x80484d2 <_hurd_stack_setup+62>: add $0x4,%ebx 0x80484d5 <_hurd_stack_setup+65>: cmp $0x80d28f0,%ebx 0x80484db <_hurd_stack_setup+71>: jb 0x80484d0 <_hurd_stack_setup+60> 0x80484dd <_hurd_stack_setup+73>: sub $0x8,%esp 0x80484e0 <_hurd_stack_setup+76>: lea 0xffffffd8(%ebp),%eax 0x80484e3 <_hurd_stack_setup+79>: push %eax 0x80484e4 <_hurd_stack_setup+80>: lea 0xfffffff4(%ebp),%eax 0x80484e7 <_hurd_stack_setup+83>: push %eax 0x80484e8 <_hurd_stack_setup+84>: call 0x804f430 <_hurd_startup> 0x80484ed <_hurd_stack_setup+89>: mov 0xfffffffc(%ebp),%ebx 0x80484f0 <_hurd_stack_setup+92>: leave 0x80484f1 <_hurd_stack_setup+93>: ret End of assembler dump. (gdb) x $ebp 0x1000ff8: 0x00000000 (gdb) x 0x1000ffc: 0x080480d5 (gdb) x 0x1001000: Cannot access memory at address 0x1001000 (gdb) 0x1001004: Cannot access memory at address 0x1001004 -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd