Re: Rational 3..2.0b and Solaris 8 does it work ?

[David Brown <davidb-cla@davidb.org>]

garilla <gary@home.net> wrote:

>>> I have an application I built under Solaris 2.7 (or Solaris 7) with
>>> Rational 3.2.0b and it works fine.  When I build the same application
>>> under Solaris 2.8 or (Solaris 8) the application cores out without
>>> even executing the first line of code.

I believe Solaris 8 added a security measure that causes the stack frame
to not be executable by default (to try and catch buffer overflow
exploits).

Perhaps your compiler's runtime/compiler create stack trampolines for
procedure passing and such.

look in /etc/system for something to the effect of:

set noexec_user_stack = 1

and try setting it to a zero, if you have it.  You will have to reboot
to change it.

Dave Brown