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regex: avoid glibc deadlock during configure glibc has a known bug where certain corruptions of the heap can cause malloc to default to printing a debug message that includes a backtrace, but the act of getting the backtrace uses dlopen which in turn calls into malloc, causing a recursive lock ending in deadlock. Thus, when configure is probing for a known glibc heap corruption bug, the overall configure would hang. The solution suggested by glibc developers is to force malloc to quit printing debug messages, which avoids recursive malloc. * m4/regex.m4 (gl_REGEX): Avoid recursive malloc deadlock when glibc bug 15078 in turn triggers bug 16159. Reported by Michal Privoznik. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
author Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
date Tue, 03 Dec 2013 10:34:13 -0700
parents c741bc27922a
children 344018b6e5d7
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# serial 3
# Check for flexible array member support.

# Copyright (C) 2006, 2009-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
# This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation
# gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
# with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved.

# Written by Paul Eggert.

AC_DEFUN([AC_C_FLEXIBLE_ARRAY_MEMBER],
[
  AC_CACHE_CHECK([for flexible array member],
    ac_cv_c_flexmember,
    [AC_COMPILE_IFELSE(
       [AC_LANG_PROGRAM(
          [[#include <stdlib.h>
            #include <stdio.h>
            #include <stddef.h>
            struct s { int n; double d[]; };]],
          [[int m = getchar ();
            struct s *p = malloc (offsetof (struct s, d)
                                  + m * sizeof (double));
            p->d[0] = 0.0;
            return p->d != (double *) NULL;]])],
       [ac_cv_c_flexmember=yes],
       [ac_cv_c_flexmember=no])])
  if test $ac_cv_c_flexmember = yes; then
    AC_DEFINE([FLEXIBLE_ARRAY_MEMBER], [],
      [Define to nothing if C supports flexible array members, and to
       1 if it does not.  That way, with a declaration like 'struct s
       { int n; double d@<:@FLEXIBLE_ARRAY_MEMBER@:>@; };', the struct hack
       can be used with pre-C99 compilers.
       When computing the size of such an object, don't use 'sizeof (struct s)'
       as it overestimates the size.  Use 'offsetof (struct s, d)' instead.
       Don't use 'offsetof (struct s, d@<:@0@:>@)', as this doesn't work with
       MSVC and with C++ compilers.])
  else
    AC_DEFINE([FLEXIBLE_ARRAY_MEMBER], [1])
  fi
])