Question

I have a C++ code which depends on libuv library (C code). It’s crashing because of the segfault. I narrowed down the problem: libuv uses struct stat from <sys/stat.h>. If I print size of this struct in my code:

printf("struct stat size: %d\n", sizeof(struct stat));

it shows 88. If I print the same in libuv library, it shows 96. This is the cause of the segfault. I am a bit stuck here. How can I find exact location of type declaration? Any other approach to solve this problem?

Answer 1

You could preprocess the source with cc -E xxx.c, and look for the offending definition in there. The #file and #line directives in the preprocessed xxx.i will point you to the approximate position of the culprit. Or just #include <sys/stat.h> at the very beginning (before any stuff from the library), the compiler should scream at you for redefining the struct 😉