Re: reasons for segmentation faults on linux

[Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>]

On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 12:49:54 GMT, Marc A. Criley wrote:
> Tony wrote:
>> 
>> I'm getting a segmentation fault in linux,
>> 
>> I 've wapped up the storage size and this has no effect,
>> 
>> I'm using three AVL trees in a task if thats any help
>> 
>> Does anyone know the common reasons for segmentation faults in
>> Gnat on Linux ?
> 
> Misaligned data...  Dereferencing dangling pointers...  Stack overflows
> (if stack checking is disabled)...

Infinite recursion:

procedure A is
begin
   A;
end A;

% gnatmake a.adb 
gnatgcc -c a.adb
a.adb:3:04: warning: possible infinite aursion
a.adb:3:04: warning: Storage_Error may be raised at run time
gnatbind -x a.ali
gnatlink a.ali

% ./a
Segmentation fault

Why isn't Storage_Error raised? GNAT 3.13p on GNU/Debian Linux.

Preben
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