[Zope-dev] Confusing segfault for Zope2 head on RH7.3

[Matthew T. Kromer]

Barry A. Warsaw wrote:

>Working on the Zope 2.7 branch I noticed a very strange crash while
>running the test suite.  I re-checked out the Zope 2 cvs head, rebuilt
>everything from scratch and I still get the crash.  I'm about out of
>ideas so I thought I'd post what I know here in case anyone else can
>confirm or give clues.
>
>[...]
>
>The top of the backtrace is:
>
>#0  PyErr_SetString (exception=0x6e727574, 
>    string=0x402660dc "Splitter index out of range") at Python/errors.c:69
>
>  
>


On *my* RedHat 7.3 system, I cannot reproduce your problem.

However, you do note that exception 0x6e727574 is ASCII for 'nrut' or 
'turn' backwards.
I dont know if that's meaningful or not.  I usally watch out for ASCII 
in things that should otherwise be addresses.

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Matt Kromer
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