FreeTDS Development Group

[James Cameron <cameron AT stl.dec.com>]

Tim Uckun wrote:
> Ok here is what GDB says I hope this tells you something because it's
> gobeldygook to me.

No worries.

> Attempting to convert unknown source type 104

That's not GDB speaking there, I guess.

> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x4014f4a7 in memcpy (dstpp=0x81b8464, srcpp=0x81a418c, len=4294967295) at
> ../sysdeps/generic/memcpy.c:55
> 55      ../sysdeps/generic/memcpy.c: No such file or directory.
> (gdb)

Interpretation ... the program received a SIGSEGV segmentation fault
signal while it was executing code within the memcpy function.  memcpy
copies a block of memory, given a source and destination pointer, and a
length in bytes.  gdb shows you these values.  The source and
destination look reasonable, but the length is clearly wrong. 
Programming error, most likely.  Looks like a negative number from a
signed 32 bit integer being interpreted as unsigned integer.

Need more information from you; do it again, but this time at the (gdb)
prompt type bt and hit enter.  I think I mentioned this before.  This
issues a stack back trace, telling us what software component is
responsible for calling the memcpy function.  Mail the result.  We can
then voice an opinion on the responsible code.

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