Nalin Dahyabhai writes:
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 04:37:05PM -0500, Dick St. Peters wrote:
> The ltrace output in /tmp/Xorg.out has 176 calls to memmove(), all
> with five arguments, like this example:
>
> memmove(0xa352c50, 0xa3535e0, 1648, 0x806892f, 0x40001c)
>
> Can anyone shed some light on what is going on here? The first three
> arguments appear to be the usual three memmove() arguments: dest, src,
> and count. The extra two aren't documented anywhere I can find, and
> memmove() has always been a three-argument function.
It looks to me as though ltrace just doesn't "know" how many arguments
memmove() takes, and this can be fixed with a quick change to
/etc/ltrace.conf. I went ahead and opened bug #658311 about it.
Thank you for the explanation. I'm relieved that there is one.
I didn't know ltrace got the arg counts and types from a conf file,
but I see /etc/ltrace.conf is mentioned in the ltrace man page.
Now I can go back to pursuing why /usr/bin/Xorg dies.
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Dick St. Peters, stpeters(a)NetHeaven.com
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