I only have 1 line of code, and this is:
pcrecpp::RE re("abc");
inside a function OnBnClickedButtonGo(). And this function fails in Release mode, but it works OK in debug mode.
(I am using Visual Studio 8 on Windows XP.)
The error message is:
A buffer overrun has occurred in testregex.exe which has corrupted the program's
internal state. Press Break to debug the program or Continue to terminate
the program.
For more details please see Help topic 'How to debug Buffer Overrun Issues'.
I suspect it is its destructor, which is invisible and implied... but I don't know really.
PS: I am statically linking to the PCRE lib version 7.8.
PS2: Not very relevant, but may help some people who have trouble linking to the PCRE library (it took me hours to sort it out): include the line #define PCRE_STATIC.
I had the same error message in my case. In debug is everything fine, but in release I get the error message. I have a native C/C++ library like native.dll. I have created a mixed unmanaged/managed C++ library, which is a wrapper for that library to .net. Somewhere in this mixed.dll I have an unmanaged function signature declaration, like:
typedef void ( *FunctionOnStartSend)();
for this the I get the message, but if I add a "magic word" there then there is no error message:
typedef void (__stdcall *FunctionOnStartSend)();
If it's happening only in release mode, it's possible that something is getting "optimized" out. Try doing something more than just the one liner, like a Match() and maybe even printing out the matches.
Here is my fresh history:
About a month ago I've got a strange link failure of the VS2008 and that day I dug that setting _SECURE_SCL=0 may help (see link text). And it helped. That day it helped me and I just propagated this setting to all the libs we build at team -- that's because MS says that two libs built with different _SECURE_SCL are incompartible.
Time passed and three days ago I've got a bug when VS2008 says that error message that we see in the first post. And there are no help from the debugger because it overruns only in Release build. I've spend almost 2 days pump'n'jump'n the code of the libs and the overrun was flawed from line to line. Finally I started checking build settings line by line and figured the diff in this setting!
Why, oh why Microsoft guys can't embed some small check in dynamic loader code to test that the library currently running and the one going to be dynamically loaded are incompartible?! Some pice of code that save people's time. Blah!
Related
Since a couple of days, I constantly receive the same error while using MATLAB which happens at some point with dlopen. I am pretty new to MATLAB, and that is why I don't know what to do. Google doesn't seem to be helping me either. When I try to make an eigenvector, I get this:
Error using eig
LAPACK loading error:
dlopen: cannot load any more object with static TLS
I also get this while making a multiplication:
Error using *
BLAS loading error:
dlopen: cannot load any more object with static TLS
I did of course look for the solutions to this problem, but I don't understand too much and don't know what to do. These are threads I found:
How do I use the BLAS library provided by MATLAB?
http://www.mathworks.de/de/help/matlab/matlab_external/calling-lapack-and-blas-functions-from-mex-files.html
Can someone help me please?
Examples of function calls demonstrating this error
>> randn(3,3)
ans =
2.7694 0.7254 -0.2050
-1.3499 -0.0631 -0.1241
3.0349 0.7147 1.4897
>> eig(ans)
Error using eig
LAPACK loading error:
dlopen: cannot load any more object with static TLS
That's bug no 961964 of MATLAB known since R2012b (8.0). MATLAB dynamically loads some libs with static TLS (thread local storage, e.g. see gcc compiler flag -ftls-model). Loading too many such libs => no space left.
Until now mathwork's only workaround is to load the important(!) libs first by using them early (they suggest to put "ones(10)*ones(10);" in startup.m). I better don't comment on this "solution strategy".
Since R2013b (8.2.0.701) with Linux x86_64 my experience is: Don't use "doc" (the graphical help system)! I think this doc-utility (libxul, etc.) is using a lot of static TLS memory.
Here is an update (2013/12/31)
All the following tests were done with Fedora 20 (with glibc-2.18-11.fc20) and Matlab 8.3.0.73043 (R2014a Prerelease).
For more information on TLS, see
Ulrich Drepper, ELF handling For Thread-Local Storage, Version 0.21, 2013,
currently available at Akkadia and Redhat.
What happens exactly?
MATLAB dynamically (with dlopen) loads several libraries that need tls initialization. All those libs need a slot in the dtv (dynamic thread vector). Because MATLAB loads several of these libs dynamically at runtime at compile/link time the linker (at mathworks) had no chance to count the slots needed (that's the important part). Now it's the task of the dynamic lib loader to handle such a case at runtime. But this is not easy. To cite dl-open.c:
For static TLS we have to allocate the memory here and
now. This includes allocating memory in the DTV. But we
cannot change any DTV other than our own. So, if we
cannot guarantee that there is room in the DTV we don't
even try it and fail the load.
There is a compile time constant (called DTV_SURPLUS, see glibc-source/sysdeps/generic/ldsodefs.h) in the glibc's dynamic lib loader for reserving a number of additional slots for such a mess (dynamically loading libs with static TLS in a multithreading program). In the glibc-Version of Fedora 20 this value is 14.
Here are the first libs (running MATLAB) that needed dtv slots in my case:
matlabroot/bin/glnxa64/libut.so
/lib64/libstdc++.so.6
/lib64/libpthread.so.0
matlabroot/bin/glnxa64/libunwind.so.8
/lib64/libuuid.so.1
matlabroot/sys/java/jre/glnxa64/jre/lib/amd64/server/libjvm.so
matlabroot/sys/java/jre/glnxa64/jre/lib/amd64/libfontmanager.so
matlabroot/sys/java/jre/glnxa64/jre/lib/amd64/libt2k.so
matlabroot/bin/glnxa64/mkl.so
matlabroot/sys/os/glnxa64/libiomp5.so
/lib64/libasound.so.2
matlabroot/sys/jxbrowser/glnxa64/xulrunner/xulrunner-linux-64/libxul.so
/lib64/libselinux.so.1
/lib64/libpixman-1.so.0
/lib64/libEGL.so.1
/lib64/libGL.so.1
/lib64/libglapi.so.0
Yes more than 14 => too many => no slot left in the dtv. That's what the error message tries to tell us and especially mathworks.
For the record: In order not to violate MATLAB's license I didn't debug, decompile or disassemble any part of the binaries shipped with MATLAB. I only debugged the free and open glibc-binaries of Fedora 20 that MATLAB were using to dynamically load the libs.
What can be done, to solve this problem?
There are 3 options:
(a)
Rebuild MATLAB and do not dynamically load those libs
(with initial-exec tls model) instead link against them (then the linker
can count the required slots!)
(b)
Rebuild those libs and ensure they are NOT using the initial-exec tls model.
(c)
Rebuild glibc and increase DTV_SURPLUS in
glibc/sysdeps/generic/ldsodefs.h
Obviously options (a) and (b) can only be done by mathworks.
For option (c) no source of MATLAB is needed and thus can be done without mathworks.
What is the status at mathworks?
I really tried to explain this to the "MathWorks Technical Support Department". But my impression is: they don't understand me. They closed my support ticket and suggested a telephone(!) conversation in January 2014 with a technical support manager.
I'll do my very best to explain this, but to be honest: I'm not very confident.
Update (2014/01/10): Currently mathworks is trying option (b).
Update (2014/03/19): For the file libiomp5.so you can download a newly compiled version (without static TLS) at mathworks, bug report 961964. And the other libs? No improvement there. So don't be suprised to get "dlopen: cannot load any more object with static TLS" with "doc", e.g. see bug report 1003952.
Restarting Matlab solved the problem for me.
long story short: in the directory that you start matlab from create a file
startup.m with content ones(10)*ones(10);. Restart matlab and it will be taken care of.
This is, as I find, an age-old problem yet unsolved by MathWorks.
Here are my two cents, which worked for me (when I wanted IT++ external libraries, with MEX).
Let the library that you found to be the cause of the problem be "libXYZ.so", and that you know where it lies on your system.
The solution is to inform MATLAB to load the specific library at the earliest of its startup. The reason for this error is apparently due to the lack of slots for this thread local storage aka tls purpose (due to they already been filled-up).
Because the latest compilations suddenly required a new library that was not loaded earlier during its startup, MATLAB throws up this error.
Pity that MATLAB never cared to resolve this problem so long.
Fortunately, the solution is a single, very simple terminal command.
Typical steps on a linux-machine should be as follows:
Open command prompt (Ctrl+Alt+T in Ubuntu)
Issue the following command
export LD_PRELOAD=<PATH-TO-libxyz.so>
e.g.: export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/local/lib/libitpp.so
Start matlab from the same terminal
matlab &
Running your program now should resolve the issue, as it is for my case.
Good luck!
Reference:
[1] http://au.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/125117-openmp-mex-files-static-tls-problem
http://www.mathworks.de/support/bugreports/961964 has been updated on 30/01/2014.
There is a zip file attached with libiomp5.so
I tested it on Mageia 4 x86_64 with Matlab R2013b.
I can now use the Documentation of Matlab to open a demo without any problem.
I had the same problem and I think I just solved it.
When installing matlab use the custom installation (I did not do this the first time). Choose to create symbolic links to matlab scripts in the predefined folder (/usr/local/bin). This did the trick for me!
I had the same problem with both Matlab 2013b and Matlab 2014a. The fix provided by mathworks for libiomp5.so only removed the problem of LAPACK not working. However, I could not use external libraries which are using OpenMp (such as VL_FEAT): I still get the error
"dlopen: cannot load any more object with static TLS."
The only thing which worked for me was downgrading to Matlab 2012b.
I came across this problem after "bar" (for bar plots) with a an array gives me just a single blue block, with no errors thrown. Reboot at first solved the problem. But after a memory error (after processing a very large file), I just cannot get past this blue block problem.
Using "hist" on a matrix input gives me the "BLAS loading error" problem and led me to this thread. The Mathwork workaround fixed the hist and bar problems.
Just wanted to bring recognition to the extent of this bug's influence.
I had the same problem and solved it by increasing my Java Heap memory. Go to Preferences > General > Java-Heap Memory, and increase the allocated memory.
Increasing Java heap memory (to 512 mb) also worked for me on R2013b/Ubuntu 12.04. The "BLAS loading error" began when I processed an 11 GB file (with 16 GB RAM), and has not recurred after increasing java heap memory and restarting matlab.
Since a couple of days, I constantly receive the same error while using MATLAB which happens at some point with dlopen. I am pretty new to MATLAB, and that is why I don't know what to do. Google doesn't seem to be helping me either. When I try to make an eigenvector, I get this:
Error using eig
LAPACK loading error:
dlopen: cannot load any more object with static TLS
I also get this while making a multiplication:
Error using *
BLAS loading error:
dlopen: cannot load any more object with static TLS
I did of course look for the solutions to this problem, but I don't understand too much and don't know what to do. These are threads I found:
How do I use the BLAS library provided by MATLAB?
http://www.mathworks.de/de/help/matlab/matlab_external/calling-lapack-and-blas-functions-from-mex-files.html
Can someone help me please?
Examples of function calls demonstrating this error
>> randn(3,3)
ans =
2.7694 0.7254 -0.2050
-1.3499 -0.0631 -0.1241
3.0349 0.7147 1.4897
>> eig(ans)
Error using eig
LAPACK loading error:
dlopen: cannot load any more object with static TLS
That's bug no 961964 of MATLAB known since R2012b (8.0). MATLAB dynamically loads some libs with static TLS (thread local storage, e.g. see gcc compiler flag -ftls-model). Loading too many such libs => no space left.
Until now mathwork's only workaround is to load the important(!) libs first by using them early (they suggest to put "ones(10)*ones(10);" in startup.m). I better don't comment on this "solution strategy".
Since R2013b (8.2.0.701) with Linux x86_64 my experience is: Don't use "doc" (the graphical help system)! I think this doc-utility (libxul, etc.) is using a lot of static TLS memory.
Here is an update (2013/12/31)
All the following tests were done with Fedora 20 (with glibc-2.18-11.fc20) and Matlab 8.3.0.73043 (R2014a Prerelease).
For more information on TLS, see
Ulrich Drepper, ELF handling For Thread-Local Storage, Version 0.21, 2013,
currently available at Akkadia and Redhat.
What happens exactly?
MATLAB dynamically (with dlopen) loads several libraries that need tls initialization. All those libs need a slot in the dtv (dynamic thread vector). Because MATLAB loads several of these libs dynamically at runtime at compile/link time the linker (at mathworks) had no chance to count the slots needed (that's the important part). Now it's the task of the dynamic lib loader to handle such a case at runtime. But this is not easy. To cite dl-open.c:
For static TLS we have to allocate the memory here and
now. This includes allocating memory in the DTV. But we
cannot change any DTV other than our own. So, if we
cannot guarantee that there is room in the DTV we don't
even try it and fail the load.
There is a compile time constant (called DTV_SURPLUS, see glibc-source/sysdeps/generic/ldsodefs.h) in the glibc's dynamic lib loader for reserving a number of additional slots for such a mess (dynamically loading libs with static TLS in a multithreading program). In the glibc-Version of Fedora 20 this value is 14.
Here are the first libs (running MATLAB) that needed dtv slots in my case:
matlabroot/bin/glnxa64/libut.so
/lib64/libstdc++.so.6
/lib64/libpthread.so.0
matlabroot/bin/glnxa64/libunwind.so.8
/lib64/libuuid.so.1
matlabroot/sys/java/jre/glnxa64/jre/lib/amd64/server/libjvm.so
matlabroot/sys/java/jre/glnxa64/jre/lib/amd64/libfontmanager.so
matlabroot/sys/java/jre/glnxa64/jre/lib/amd64/libt2k.so
matlabroot/bin/glnxa64/mkl.so
matlabroot/sys/os/glnxa64/libiomp5.so
/lib64/libasound.so.2
matlabroot/sys/jxbrowser/glnxa64/xulrunner/xulrunner-linux-64/libxul.so
/lib64/libselinux.so.1
/lib64/libpixman-1.so.0
/lib64/libEGL.so.1
/lib64/libGL.so.1
/lib64/libglapi.so.0
Yes more than 14 => too many => no slot left in the dtv. That's what the error message tries to tell us and especially mathworks.
For the record: In order not to violate MATLAB's license I didn't debug, decompile or disassemble any part of the binaries shipped with MATLAB. I only debugged the free and open glibc-binaries of Fedora 20 that MATLAB were using to dynamically load the libs.
What can be done, to solve this problem?
There are 3 options:
(a)
Rebuild MATLAB and do not dynamically load those libs
(with initial-exec tls model) instead link against them (then the linker
can count the required slots!)
(b)
Rebuild those libs and ensure they are NOT using the initial-exec tls model.
(c)
Rebuild glibc and increase DTV_SURPLUS in
glibc/sysdeps/generic/ldsodefs.h
Obviously options (a) and (b) can only be done by mathworks.
For option (c) no source of MATLAB is needed and thus can be done without mathworks.
What is the status at mathworks?
I really tried to explain this to the "MathWorks Technical Support Department". But my impression is: they don't understand me. They closed my support ticket and suggested a telephone(!) conversation in January 2014 with a technical support manager.
I'll do my very best to explain this, but to be honest: I'm not very confident.
Update (2014/01/10): Currently mathworks is trying option (b).
Update (2014/03/19): For the file libiomp5.so you can download a newly compiled version (without static TLS) at mathworks, bug report 961964. And the other libs? No improvement there. So don't be suprised to get "dlopen: cannot load any more object with static TLS" with "doc", e.g. see bug report 1003952.
Restarting Matlab solved the problem for me.
long story short: in the directory that you start matlab from create a file
startup.m with content ones(10)*ones(10);. Restart matlab and it will be taken care of.
This is, as I find, an age-old problem yet unsolved by MathWorks.
Here are my two cents, which worked for me (when I wanted IT++ external libraries, with MEX).
Let the library that you found to be the cause of the problem be "libXYZ.so", and that you know where it lies on your system.
The solution is to inform MATLAB to load the specific library at the earliest of its startup. The reason for this error is apparently due to the lack of slots for this thread local storage aka tls purpose (due to they already been filled-up).
Because the latest compilations suddenly required a new library that was not loaded earlier during its startup, MATLAB throws up this error.
Pity that MATLAB never cared to resolve this problem so long.
Fortunately, the solution is a single, very simple terminal command.
Typical steps on a linux-machine should be as follows:
Open command prompt (Ctrl+Alt+T in Ubuntu)
Issue the following command
export LD_PRELOAD=<PATH-TO-libxyz.so>
e.g.: export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/local/lib/libitpp.so
Start matlab from the same terminal
matlab &
Running your program now should resolve the issue, as it is for my case.
Good luck!
Reference:
[1] http://au.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/125117-openmp-mex-files-static-tls-problem
http://www.mathworks.de/support/bugreports/961964 has been updated on 30/01/2014.
There is a zip file attached with libiomp5.so
I tested it on Mageia 4 x86_64 with Matlab R2013b.
I can now use the Documentation of Matlab to open a demo without any problem.
I had the same problem and I think I just solved it.
When installing matlab use the custom installation (I did not do this the first time). Choose to create symbolic links to matlab scripts in the predefined folder (/usr/local/bin). This did the trick for me!
I had the same problem with both Matlab 2013b and Matlab 2014a. The fix provided by mathworks for libiomp5.so only removed the problem of LAPACK not working. However, I could not use external libraries which are using OpenMp (such as VL_FEAT): I still get the error
"dlopen: cannot load any more object with static TLS."
The only thing which worked for me was downgrading to Matlab 2012b.
I came across this problem after "bar" (for bar plots) with a an array gives me just a single blue block, with no errors thrown. Reboot at first solved the problem. But after a memory error (after processing a very large file), I just cannot get past this blue block problem.
Using "hist" on a matrix input gives me the "BLAS loading error" problem and led me to this thread. The Mathwork workaround fixed the hist and bar problems.
Just wanted to bring recognition to the extent of this bug's influence.
I had the same problem and solved it by increasing my Java Heap memory. Go to Preferences > General > Java-Heap Memory, and increase the allocated memory.
Increasing Java heap memory (to 512 mb) also worked for me on R2013b/Ubuntu 12.04. The "BLAS loading error" began when I processed an 11 GB file (with 16 GB RAM), and has not recurred after increasing java heap memory and restarting matlab.
I have a wxWidgets/GTK based application that works well - except for one installation on an Debian Squeeze ARM system. There it crashes when the user just activates the main window of it. To find the reason for that I added a signal handler to the application and use libunwind out of that signal handler to find the source for the crash. During a test that worked fine, when the software writes e.g. to address 0x0 libunwind correctly points me to the function where that happens.
But the results for the system where the crash appears unexpectedly are a bit strange, they seem to happen outside of my application. One crash comes from a function with no name (here libunwind returns an empty string), and one is caused by "malloc_usable_size", a system function which should never die this way.
So...what to do next? All ideas, suggestions or any other hints are welcome since I'm not sure how to contunue with that problem...
Check for buffer overrun or overwriting some memory unexpectedly for any structures, pointers, memory locations for items returned by library functions.
Check for invalid pointer frees in your code for the library allocated pointers that you are using.
May be using valgrind would also help.
I have an app which was working fine few days ago. But today I'm getting this error:
{standard input}:1948:invalid offset, value too big (0x00000400)
Command /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/usr/bin/gcc-4.2 failed with exit >code 1
Ok Guys,
After a lot of troubleshooting finally I found the solution. A big Switch Case was the problem. Converting that into if else statement solved the problem.
I had a similar issue today while I was writing an assembly routine for an ARM Cortex-M0 processor. In my case, the code that caused the error looked like this:
ldr r7 ,=PRTCNFG_10
This is a pseudo instruction causing the processor to load the value of constant PRTCNFG_10 (defined using the .equ directive) into register r7. The pseudo instruction will be translated into
ldr r7 ,[pc, #immed8]
where #immed8 is an 8 bit immediate value. Since 2^8=256, the definition of PRTCNFG_10 must not be placed beyond pc+256 bytes, otherwise the Assembler will throw an error.
I solved the issue by explicitly allocating PRTCNFG_10 in memory:
PRTCNFG_10:
.word 0x606
Just saw the same issue, which also turned out to be caused by a switch case. It wasn't even that big (26 cases), and it had compiled fine in the past, but for some reason it started to fail today. Replacing it with if-else solved the weird GCC error.
While this question is not strictly about assembler, this question pops up in web searches about this specific errors often enough that I'd like to add an answer that should be helpful to people programming in it.
The assembler syntax is LDR REG, =SOMETHING.
If that SOMETHING is >16 bits, we got a problem because Thumb doesn't have 32-bit immediates. To fix this, the assembler remembers the constant and replaces the statement with a PC-relative load to something that's less than 0x400 bytes off (more than that doesn't fit in the instruction).
You then say
.ltoff
someplace convenient (e.g. right behind the next bx lr or pop {pc}) to direct the assembler to place these constants there.
I have a code in Visual Studio 2008 in C++ that works with files just by fopen and fclose.
Everything works perfect in Debug mode. and I have tested with several datasets.
But it doesn't work in release mode. It crashes all the time.
I have turned off all the optimizations, also there is no dependency to anything(in the linker), and also I have set these:
Optimization: Disabled(/Od)
Keep Unreferenced Data.
Do Not Remove Redundant
Optimize for Windows98: NO
I still keep wondering how it should not work under these circumstances.
What else should I turn off to let it work as in debug mode?
I think if it works in release mode but not in debug mode, it might be a coding fault but the other way looks weird. isn't it?
I appreciate any help.
--Nima
Debug modes often initialize heap data allocations. The program might be dependent on this behavior. Look for variables and buffers that are not getting initialized.
1) Double check any and all code that depends on preprocessor macros.
2) Use assert() for verify program state preconditions. These must not be expected to impact program flow (ie. removing the check would still allow the code to provide the same end result) because assert is a macro. Use regular run-time conditionals when an assert won't do.
3) Indeed, never leave a variable in an uninitialized state.
By far the most likely explanation is differing undefined behavior in the two modes caused by uninitialized memory. Lack of thread safety and problems with synchronization code can also exhibit this kind of behavior because of differing timing environments between debug and release, but if your program isn't multi-threaded then obviously this can't be it.
I had experienced this and in my case it was because of one of my array of struct which suppose to have only X index, but my looping which check this struct was over checking to X+1 index. Interesting is debugging mode was running fine though I was on Visual C++ 2005.
I spent a few hours by putting in printf into my coding line by line to catch the bug. Anyone has good way to debug this kind of error please let me know.