[gst-embedded] [gst-devel] gstreamer segfault on ARM

Zhao Liang-E3423C E3423C at motorola.com
Mon Jun 23 00:33:50 PDT 2008


Yes, It is same issue with us, but we are using another solution, I can try his fix .


Best Regards
Zhao Liang 赵 亮
Tel:86-10-84733698
No.1 Wang Jing East Road, Chao Yang District, Beijing, China 100102 
北京市朝阳区望京东路1号, 100102

-----Original Message-----
From: Shi Ling-w20230 
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 3:29 PM
To: Bernard Blackham; gstreamer-embedded at lists.sourceforge.net; gstreamer-devel at lists.sourceforge.net; Zhao Liang-E3423C
Subject: RE: [gst-devel] [gst-embedded] gstreamer segfault on ARM

Zhao Liang,
I remember we meet the same issue before. Could you check?




Shi Ling
Tel:86-10-84733539
Motorola (China) Technology Ltd. 
No.1 Wang Jing East Road, Chao Yang District, 100102 Beijing 

-----Original Message-----
From: gstreamer-devel-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:gstreamer-devel-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Bernard Blackham
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 3:30 PM
To: gstreamer-embedded at lists.sourceforge.net; gstreamer-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [gst-devel] [gst-embedded] gstreamer segfault on ARM

[Taking to gst-devel]

Bernard Blackham wrote:
> Running a rather simple program:
> 
>   #include <gst/gst.h>
>   int main() {
>     gst_init(0, NULL);
>     g_pipeline_new("pipeline");
>     return 0;
>   }
> 
> with GST_DEBUG=4 causes the program to segfault when it goes to print 
> out one of its trace messages.

I tracked down the cause of this to an incompatibility with my build of glib. When cross-compiling glib, it decided to not like glibc's printf (because it tried running some printf tests and failed, because it was cross-compiling), and thus went and used its own printf implementation.

Gstreamer was not aware of this decision in the glib build though, so it happily went ahead and used glib assuming it had a glibc printf that could support printf extensions (that it uses to format %P in strings).

Rebuilding glib with the right configure cache settings (below) solved the gstreamer crash.

  glib_cv_long_long_format=ll
  ac_cv_func_printf_unix98=yes
  ac_cv_func_vsnprintf_c99=yes

So this solved the problem, but I'm wondering if there should be a better way for gstreamer to detect if it is safe to use %P or not: not only does glibc need to provide it, but glib needs to be using it too. 
Or is the fact that glibc provides it enough proof that glib should be using it and anything else is a broken setup like mine was?

TIA,
Bernard.


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