[kde-freebsd] problems with threads/destructors in -current with llvm/clang

Kevin Lo kevlo at FreeBSD.org
Sat Dec 8 07:40:13 UTC 2012


Dimitry Andric wrote:
> On 2012-12-07 13:59, Dimitry Andric wrote:
> > On 2012-12-06 18:12, Mark Atkinson wrote:
> >> Short backstory, I had recently upgraded my workstation to the latest
> >> current which included clang as default cc now.
> > ...
> >> qdbus under kde segfaults in malloc with a huge recursion stack:
> ...
> > This is a bug in qdbus; it uses a global static QDBusConnection object,
> > and the order in which global destructors are called is undefined:
> ...
> > The global static QDBusConnection object should be replaced by a
> > singleton, as suggested here:
> 
> Here is an alternative solution, where the QDBusConnection object is
> just a local variable in main(), and passed around as a const reference.
> To make the destructors work properly, I also replaced the exit() calls
> in main() with return statements.
> 
> With this patch (placed in /usr/ports/devel/dbus-qt4/files), qdbus
> starts up and exits normally for me.  I did not do any other rigorous
> testing, though. :)

Works for me, thanks. I think your patch should go in. 

	Kevin



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