Re: Vim segv'ing

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>]

On Jul  1 10:36, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> FYI, I tracked it down to the place where the stack overwrite occurs.
> This is most puzzeling.  When typing :wq!, the following chain of functions
> is called:
> 
>   nv_colon
>    do_cmdline
>     ex_exit
>      do_write
>       open                           <- Here it calls into the Cygwin DLL
>        fhandler_base::open_with_arch
>         fhandler_base::open_fs
>          fhandler_base::open
>           NtCreateFile               <--Here it calls into NTDLL.DLL
>               
> The open call tries to open the backup file "/etc/hosts~", not the
> symlink itself.
> 
> In the optimized version of vim, the local variable "cap" in the
> function nv_colon is kept in register $esi.  When do_cmdline is called,
> $esi is pushed onto the stack.  Then everything goes its normal ways,
> until NtCreateFile is called.
> 
> And here's the puzzler: This call to NtCreateFile overwrites the 4 byte
> stack slot in which the "cap" pointer is saved with the value 0x10c!
> [...]
> Oh, and here's a last-minute surprise:  It does not happen if you run
> gvim, rather than vim.  Maybe I should just give up to provide packages.

And it also does not happen if I build Cygwin with gcc 4.5.1 rather than
with gcc 4.3.4.  Is it possible that a compiler bug is playing a role
here?  I can't quite believe it, the effect is too specific.


Corinna


P.S.: Yaakov, is there any chance to get a 4.5.3 x86_64 cross compiler
package?  Yum always tries to replace my x86_64 4.5.1 package with the
4.5.3 package for i686, but that doesn't work due to missing
dependencies...

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