peter green wrote:
>
>>
>> 106: void av_free_static(void)
>> 107: {
>> 108: while(last_static){
>> 109: av_freep(&array_static[--last_static]);
>> 110: }
>> 111: av_freep(&array_static);
>> 112: }
>>
>> A segfault in line 108 is, uhm, strange.
>>
> Agreed, either gdb is misbehaving or something very weired is going on.
>
>
> Either way something needs to be done about this for lenny, since it
> looks like the crash is happening in the unloading of libavcodec (at
> least that is my interpretation of the bottom lines of the backtrace) is
> there any way to stop libavcoded getting unloaded?
libavcodec is miscompiled. Since gcc-4.3 the compiler defaults to non-PIC
code. I'm currently testing the attached patch.
Thiemo
Since gcc-4.3 mips/mipsel needs an explicit PIC flag for shared library
code.
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -1811,7 +1811,7 @@ if enabled shared; then
# LIBOBJFLAGS may have already been set in the OS configuration
if test -z "$LIBOBJFLAGS" ; then
case "$arch" in
- x86_64|ia64|alpha|sparc*|power*|parisc*) LIBOBJFLAGS='$(PIC)' ;;
+ x86_64|ia64|alpha|sparc*|power*|parisc*|mips*) LIBOBJFLAGS='$(PIC)' ;;
esac
fi
fi
