Re: signal 11 on AIX: 7.4.2

Tom Lane wrote:

> Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca> writes:
>> On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 07:52:59PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> I can see from your trace that you are using the getaddrinfo code from
>>> libc, but where is configure finding a header that declares struct
>>> addrinfo?
> 
>> Hrm, I can't seem to tell.  I see this in config.log, but it isn't
>> telling me where it found it.  Am I looking in the wrong place?
> 
> What you'd need to do is determine which system headers are being
> #include'd by that config test, and then look through them to find
> struct addrinfo.

judging by gdb's structure printing, the crashed postgres instance used 
the non-43 compatible 64-bit version of the strucure. What I don't 
really get is that the whole excercise seems to have scribbled over the 
stack. The hints pointer originating from the on-stack structure in 
parse_hba is somehow pointing into the blue.


Jan

> 
> A shortcut is just to grep through /usr/include and its subdirectories
> for addrinfo.  If you only find one definition, then you don't really
> need to worry too much.  But if there's more than one you need to
> determine which is getting used.
> 
>             regards, tom lane
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