Re: [boost] boost::thread segfault

From: James Sutherland (James.Sutherland_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-01-28 11:32:10

On 1/26/08 10:32 AM, "Phil Endecott" <spam_from_boost_dev_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> James Sutherland wrote:
>> I am getting segmentation violations from inside of boost::thread
>> 
>> Running valgrind, I get the following:
>>> ==31129== Thread 2:
>>> ==31129== Jump to the invalid address stated on the next line
>>> ==31129==    at 0xEC834853E5894855: ???
>>> ==31129==    by 0x4A4DDE1: boost::function0<void,
>>> std::allocator<boost::function_base> >::function0(boost::function0<void,
>>> std::allocator<boost::function_base> > const&) (function_template.hpp:527)
>>> ==31129==    by 0x4A4CF21: thread_proxy (thread.cpp:106)
>>> ==31129==    by 0x31A0D06136: start_thread (in
>>> /lib64/tls/libpthread-2.3.4.so)
>>> ==31129==    by 0x31A04C7532: clone (in /lib64/tls/libc-2.3.4.so)
> 
> Is this the "non-thread-safe-threads" bug?  Have you upgraded your
> Boost.Function per the instructions at http://boost.org/ ?  Are you
> creating several threads at nearly the same time?  Does this only ever
> happen when the first few threads are created?  What compiler are you using?
> 
> 
> Phil.
> 

I have not upgraded Boost.Function (I am running version 1.34.0).  Is there
a potential problem there that could be causing this?  I am spawning several
threads concurrently, but the segfault consistently occurs while creating
the first thread.  I am using gcc 3.4.6.

I am not seeing this behavior on a simple problem, and haven't been able to
reproduce it on a small enough problem to post source code for...

James