[Mono-devel-list] Segmentation Fault?

[Paolo Molaro]

On 03/16/04 Griffin Caprio wrote:
> This is becoming a chronic problem.  I am now getting this error 
> NAnt: 
> mcs -target:exe -define:MONO -debug -o bin/NAnt.exe 
> -r:lib/mono/1.0/log4net.dll -recurse:src/NAnt.Console/*.cs 
> src/CommonAssemblyInfo.cs 
> 
> Unhandled Exception: System.NullReferenceException: Segmentation fault 
> #0: 0x00000            in System.String::get_Chars ([4100197] ) 
> #1: 0x00052 callvirt   in System.String::LastIndexOf ([47] [4118807] 
> [4118808] ) 
> #2: 0x00022 callvirt   in System.String::LastIndexOf ([47] ) 
> #3: 0x00003 callvirt   in Mono.CSharp.Driver::SplitPathAndPattern 
> ([O:0x2df28] [M:0xf04009b0] [M:0xf04009b4] ) 

Somehow the code in SplitPathAndPattern() generates a very big string
(4118808 characters?) or the string is corrupted: see how it tries to
access the 4100197th char in the string.

> Anyone have any ideas? 

Don't use make fullbuild and just use precompiled assemblies
or try to debug, maybe with the --trace option to mint.

lupus

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