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There is a potential segmentation fault when executing ‘make test’ while building apr-1.7.0. The following lines are output:

...
testatomic          : -Line 413: Failed creating threads
-/bin/sh: line 2: XXXXX Segmentation fault      ./$prog -v
...
Programs failed: testall
make[1]: *** [check] Error 139
make[1]: Leaving directory `.../apr-1.7.0/test'
make: *** [check] Error 2

The segmentation fault is caused by a call to apr_thread_join() on an invalid apr_thread_t instance in test_atomics_threaded(). The problematic functions, test_atomics_threaded() and test_atomics_threaded64(), continue processing even when apr_thread_create() returns an error value.

The segmentation fault is avoided and the remaining tests are executed if either of the following is performed on …/apr-1.7.0/test/testatomic.c:

1. Comment out the following lines:

abts_run_test(suite, test_atomics_threaded, NULL);
abts_run_test(suite, test_atomics_threaded64, NULL);

2. Update NUM_THREADS with a smaller number, for example:

#define NUM_THREADS 25

A lack of memory resources is the underlying cause of this segmentation fault. Reducing the number of threads created for these tests allows testing the atomic operations as intended.

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