Public bug reported: The most common Firefox crash on Linux in Mozilla's crash-stats system is crashes in the function flag_qsort.
These crashes occur: * only on x86 architecture * only on Ubuntu packages (and not on Mozilla's builds) * on precise and saucy and trusty (based on kernel versions reported with the crashes) and appear to be due to a compiler bug in the compiler used to generate Ubuntu's builds. (It could be a common compiler bug triggered by different compiler options or a compiler bug specific to Ubuntu's gcc.) The analysis that leads to the conclusion that this is a compiler bug is in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=983817 . In particular, the compiler is miscompiling an access to an element of an array of unsigned short as a 32-bit read, and when the unsigned short in question is the last one in the allocation and that allocation is aligned so that the byte following has a different 0x100000 bit, this can lead to crashes. The most recent (whenever you follow the link) 7 days of crash reports are available at: https://crash- stats.mozilla.com/report/list?signature=flag_qsort&product=Firefox&query_type=contains&range_unit=weeks ** Affects: firefox Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: gcc-defaults (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: gcc-defaults (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Bug watch added: Mozilla Bugzilla #983817 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=983817 ** Also affects: firefox via https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=983817 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1322784 Title: Firefox crashes in flag_qsort during spellchecker initialization on x86 due to gcc bug To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/1322784/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
