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Old 03-02-2016
Segment fault related to strlen.S

Hello,
This function was copied into my code, which was compiled without error/warning, but when executed there is always Segmentation fault at the end after the output (which seems correct!):
Code:
void get_hashes(unsigned int hash[],  unsigned char *in)
{
    unsigned char *str = in;
    int pos = strlen((char *) in);    //This line is of problem!
    hash[0] = RSHash(str, pos);
    hash[1] = DJBHash(str, pos);
    hash[2] = FNVHash(str, pos);
    hash[3] = JSHash(str, pos);
    hash[4] = PJWHash(str, pos);
    hash[5] = SDBMHash(str, pos);
    hash[6] = DEKHash(str, pos);
    hash[7] = murmur(str, (uint64_t) pos, (uint64_t) pos);
}

Then I used gdb to debug, and I got this message:
Code:
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
strlen () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/strlen.S:106
106    ../sysdeps/x86_64/strlen.S: No such file or directory.

The problem line has been highlighted. Code for the whole program is attached. I used type cast to suppress the warnings at compiling without full understanding.
Can someone explain the error for me, and show me the correct fix?
Thanks a lot!
# 2  
Old 03-03-2016
Quote:
Originally Posted by yifangt
... I used type cast to suppress the warnings at compiling without full understanding.
Now you have some understanding of why you shouldn't use type casts to suppress warnings.

Quote:
Can someone explain the error for me, and show me the correct fix?
Thanks a lot!
You're trying to take the length of a string - but it's not a string.
# 3  
Old 03-03-2016
Invalid loop count. Change
Code:
    for (j = 0; j < 23; j++) {

to
Code:
   for (j = 0; j < 22; j++) {

# 4  
Old 03-03-2016
Segmentation fault still there

Thanks achenle, you said it is not a string, but it seems the program has done what I expected except the "segmentation fault" error. Can you please show me the fix, if possible?
Murphy! I made the change, but the error still there!

Last edited by yifangt; 03-07-2016 at 12:07 PM..
# 5  
Old 03-07-2016
Follow up

Also I changed all the corresponding parameters from unsigned char to const char to have consistency and avoid typecasting:
Code:
void get_hashes(unsigned int hash[],  const char *in)
{
    int pos = strlen(in);            //causing Segmentation fault at end of run!
    hash[0] = RSHash(in, pos);
    hash[1] = DJBHash(in, pos);
}

but the problem is still the same. Anyone more clues, please?

Last edited by yifangt; 03-08-2016 at 11:04 AM..
# 6  
Old 03-07-2016
Running the code with Qt creator it seems limiting the bound in the outer loop:

Code:
for (j = 0; j < 22; j++)

allows the code to run with out any memory violation errors. This might be a clue to the problem ( not sure what the code does )..

Edit: Opps! when I change the outer loop bound to 22 the code seems to run without any memory access violations on Fedora 23 using g++ version: 5.3.1 20151207 . Not sure what the problem is on your end. I would find which loop indexes the program crashes for you and then trace the code from there using a debugger.

Last edited by cman; 03-07-2016 at 05:45 PM..
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# 7  
Old 03-08-2016
Thanks cman!
Finally the problem was found to be the third last entry of my str[], for which the comma was missing!
Code:
*str[]={......,
"......cagt",
"....acgatc"         //Here the comma was left out!
"...ggggcta",
"....acgcat"}
};

Each single string was 500 char long wrapped in two lines but concatenated with a "\n" in the middle. The missing comma make the third last string 1000 char long, which violated the macro definition:
Code:
#define WORD_BUF_SIZE 512

However, I'd like to know your way to debug I would find which loop indexes the program crashes for you!Thanks a lot!

Last edited by yifangt; 03-08-2016 at 03:50 PM.. Reason: typo
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