On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 09:13:21PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 15 février 2007 à 19:20 +0100, Marco Nenciarini a écrit : > > Package: puf > > Version: 1.0.0-3 > > Severity: important > > > > I've found that puf crashes almost all the time when attempts to do a > > recursive fetch like > > > > puf -r http://www.htdig.org/files > > > > This ends in an endless loop after some file downloaded (n < 10) on > > all my machine (all i386). > > > > I've tried to find the problem and i've found that the url.c source > > causes the error if is compiled with -ON for N >= 1 with gcc-4.1. If > > compiled with -O0 all works ok wathever is the optimization settings > > for other source objects. > > > > The error (a s = s->next disappaired) is on the line containing h_find > > (a macro defined in puf.h) in the first function of file (find_url). > > > > I've investigated a lot on this problem, but i've not found a solution > > other then disabling the optimization at all. > > Without presuming because I haven't tested it, it is likely to be caused > by the compiler optimizing the static global variables, while the > software is relying on signals. If you don't want these variables to be > optimized out, you must use the "volatile" keyword. >
Yes, you have hit the problem. After declared all static globals as volatile all problems was disappaired. I'm preparing an upload with this fix. Ciao -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | Marco Nenciarini | Debian/GNU Linux Developer - Plug Member | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.prato.linux.it/~mnencia | --------------------------------------------------------------------- Key fingerprint = FED9 69C7 9E67 21F5 7D95 5270 6864 730D F095 E5E4
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