Guillaume Yziquel a écrit :
> Hello.
> 
> I encountered a rather weird issue. A binding of mine works fine when 
> bundled as a .cmxa, but fails when bundled as a .cma. I'm running a 
> Linux Debian amd64.
> 
> I've tracked down the issue to the following point: it seems that when 
> the BSS (uninitialised data section) of libmonetdb5.so is dynamically 
> loaded, it doesn't get initialised to 0. And the code in libmonetdb5.so 
> relies on the fact that BSS gets initialised to 0 when dynamically loaded.
> 
> So: is ocaml failing to initialise memory to 0 when limonetdb5.so is 
> dynamically loaded?

Problem solved: This is in fact a symbol collision problem on the symbol 
'box'. There's one in libncurses, which is loaded by ocamlrun.

Thanks to Csaba Halasz (Jester01 on ##asm) for help with binary debugging.

All the best,

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      Guillaume Yziquel
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