[omniORB] Segmentation Faults with omniNames on AIX 4.3

[Gary D. Duzan]

   I believe you are seeing the exception handling problems with
gcc on AIX. To the best of my knowledge there is no cure for this
yet except going to xlC, which is IBM's compiler. We have someone
here who has done some work on the gcc problem, but it doesn't
event seem to be fixed in the gcc 3.0 branch yet, so I wouldn't
hold my breath. The egcs config file hasn't been updated since it
never really worked except for a patched version of egcs 1.0,
and the patches were never updated for newer versions.
   Sorry. I'd be happier using gcc, myself, but we're pretty much
stuck with what we have.

					Gary Duzan
					GTE Laboratories



In Message <862568B8.0011C86E.00@smtp2.mcld.net> ,
   mdonahue@McLeodUSA.com wrote:

=>Let me start by saying thanks to Gary Duncan for his solution on my linking
=>problem.  Due to problems with how the make files use relative paths, I ended up
=>linking everything by hand to get omniNames to start.
=>
=>My Question:
=>-------------------
=>Has anyone had Segmentation Fault problems with omniNames on omniORB 2.8.0.  I'm
=>running on AIX 4.2 and building with gcc 2.95.2.  Here is what I'm doing to see
=>the problem.
=>
=>1.)  Start omniNames. (forground or background makes no difference)
=>2.)  Start a simple CORBA echo server that registers with the Name Service.
=>3.)  Start a program that opens a CORBA connection to the server via the Name
=>Service, sends a short string, and shuts down
=>
=>Sometime after step 3 omniNames dies with a segmentation fault.  If I just start
=>omniNames and don't start any clients or servers, omniNames seems to run without
=>any problems, but I have only tried this for an hour or two.  As soon as I have
=>run the client at least once, omniNames eventually dies.  I doesn't always die
=>immediately, and in most cases, I can successfully do step 3 over and over again
=>in a loop unit omniNames dies, but is never takes more that 20 times before it
=>dies.
=>
=>NOTE:  The platform make file I use "powerpc_aix_4.2_egcs.mk" has NOT been
=>updated to work with omniORB 2.8.0.  I had t update hard coded settings for
=>omniORB 2.7.x before it would work at all.
=>
=>TIA,
=>
=>- Mike Donahue