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can -fstack-protector-all be used to find leaks
- From: howarth at bromo dot msbb dot uc dot edu (Jack Howarth)
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 09:43:41 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: can -fstack-protector-all be used to find leaks
Is it possible to leverage the new -fstack-protector-all feature
in gcc 4.1 branch to discover the origin of memory leaks that are
clobbering the stack? I have a fortran program which segfaults in
the next write it attempts after a particular read. I have compiled
this fortran code with -fstack-protector-all and the segfault is
suppressed and replaced with a runtime error 02 exit of the
program. Since the problem seems to occur during a fortran read call,
I have rebuilt the gcc 4.1 branch libgfortran using the
-fstack-protector-all option and will try debugging the fortran
program with that library in place.
What I am uncertain about is exactly what behavior I should expect
from the code generated by -fstack-protector-all. My hope is that
I will see a runtime error generated by the stack protector code
in libgfortran's io routines when the stack gets clobbered. Is this
scenario reasonable or am I expecting too much from the stack
protector code? Thanks in advance for any insights on this issue.
Jack