Re: [Bug-apl] OpenBSD + GNU APL 1.8: Segfault immediately on apl startup

[Dr . Jürgen Sauermann]

Hi Brian,

thanks for reporting this. It looks like something goes wrong in the order of initialization
of static class members.

Could you please change line 35 of file src/static_Objects to read:

bool static_Objects::show_constructors = true;

and recompile and run GNU APL again? It will crash again but
the output before that is relevant (no stackdump needed).

The segfault is somewhat obscure because cerr << endl fails, but
this happens inside an assertion that should not trigger in the first place.

Best Regards,
Jürgen

On 7/21/19 3:07 AM, Dr. Brian Callahan wrote:

Hi list --

I am in the process of updating the OpenBSD package of GNU APL to 1.8. It builds ok, but segfaults immediately upon running the apl binary.

There is a (unfortunately very large) gdb backtrace attached to this email. It seems to be a problem with the custom COUT/CERR handling but I'm not well-versed in GNU APL internals.

Happy to test out any patches.

~Brian