What causes signal 'SIGILL'? - android

I'm porting some C++ code to Android using NDK and GCC. The code basically runs. At one point, when debugging in Eclipse, the call
Dabbler::Android::Factory* pFactory = new Dabbler::Android::Factory;
causes this error:
Thread [1] (Suspended: Signal 'SIGILL' received. Description: Illegal instruction.)
1 <symbol is not available> 0x812feb44
What does that mean? Has the compiler generated illegal code for some reason? I have a breakpoint in the constructor (which does nothing), and it's not hit. I have already done a full rebuild.
What could I be doing wrong to cause this problem?

Make sure that all functions with non-void return type have a return statement.
While some compilers automatically provide a default return value, others will send a SIGILL or SIGTRAP at runtime when trying to leave a function without a return value.

It means the CPU attempted to execute an instruction it didn't understand. This could be caused by corruption I guess, or maybe it's been compiled for the wrong architecture (in which case I would have thought the O/S would refuse to run the executable). Not entirely sure what the root issue is.

It could be some un-initialized function pointer, in particular if you have corrupted memory (then the bogus vtable of C++ bad pointers to invalid objects might give that).
BTW gdb watchpoints & tracepoints, and also valgrind might be useful (if available) to debug such issues. Or some address sanitizer.

LeetCode's online compiler and dev environment generates SIGILL errors for mistakes that do not generate the same error in my desktop IDE.
For example, array access with an out-of-bounds index:
["foo", "bar"][2]
LeetCode's compiler shows only the error:
Runtime Error
process exited with signal SIGILL
in a local Xcode playground this same code instead results in the error:
error: Execution was interrupted, reason: EXC_BREAKPOINT (code=1, subcode=0x18f2ea5d8).
The process has been left at the point where it was interrupted, use "thread return -x" to return to the state before expression evaluation.
Only in a full Xcode project compilation and run does it report the actual error:
Thread 1: Fatal error: Index out of range

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Unordered_map declaration throws error with NDK (clang), works fine with gcc

I'm trying to run a C++ project on Android. The following statement appears in one of the source files (part of a big project).
std::unordered_map <int, std::shared_ptr<Frame>, std::hash<int>, std::equal_to<int>,
Eigen::aligned_allocator< std::pair<const int, std::shared_ptr<Frame> > > > idToKeyFrame;
The NDK build complains the following
sysroot/usr/include/c++/v1/unordered_map:1684:5: error: static_assert failed due to requirement 'is_same<value_type, typename allocator_type::value_type>::value' "Invalid allocator::value_type"
I cannot spot what part of declaration is incompatible. Please help in fixing this error.
cplusplus.com reference
Update
When I modify the allocator (as suggested in comment by Marc) to Eigen::aligned_allocator<std::pair<int, std::shared_ptr<Frame>>> The error message remains the same but line number changes
sysroot/usr/include/c++/v1/unordered_map:854:5: error: static_assert failed due to requirement 'is_same<value_type, typename allocator_type::value_type>::value' "Invalid allocator::value_type"
Update++
According to this answer :
libstdc++ does not static_assert, libstdc++ ignores the exact type of the allocator and rebinds it to the container's value type.
and
Clang/libc++ are not forgiving
Yet another Update
I have been able to go past the error by commenting out the line in the source for unordered_map. This is a resort for now (until I get a solution).

Call arguments missing when debugging with ndk-gdb. Stack trace works

I am trying to debug native code on Android using ndk-gdb, with mixed results.
When the debugger hits a breakpoint, I am able to get a nice stack trace using 'bt'.
Hhen typing 'info source', ndk-gdb tells me that the file I have hit the breakpoint in is "Compiled with DWARF 2 debugging format".
The problem arises when I enter 'info args' to get the function argument values. ndk-gdb then states that: "No symbol table info available.".
Any input to the cause of this problem would be appreciated.
It's strange that it says that about the file being compiled with DWARF 2 format, because the flags you provide there indicates it is only specifying -g, which should get GCC 4.8 to produce DWARF 4 format. Which also is consistent with the error you are seeing. Add the flag -gdwarf-2 and the NDK debugger (which is not yet at version 7.5) should be able to deal with the symbols.
I picked this up from one of the answers to this question: Debugging with gdb on a program with no optimization but still there is no symbol in the current context for local variables

Error while compiling libhardware_legacy

Two days ago i read some guides about how to self compile cyanogenmod and i wanted to try on my phone (Galaxy 3 i5800). The phone's CPU architecture is ARMV6 so i downloaded from androidarmv6.github.io the CyanogenMod 10.2 source code and from https://github.com/sdadier/cm10.1_device_samsung_apollo the device folder. At first compilation went pretty good except some "Selected Thumb mode not supported..." errors which i fixed by adding "-marm" CFLAG to involved Android.mk . However now i'm stuck on libhwardware_legacy compilation because i keep getting the error:
target thumb C: libhardware_legacy <= hardware/libhardware_legacy/wifi/wifi.c
hardware/libhardware_legacy/wifi/wifi.c: In function 'update_ctrl_interface':
hardware/libhardware_legacy/wifi/wifi.c:473:5: warning: suggest parentheses around assignment used as truth value [-Wparentheses]
hardware/libhardware_legacy/wifi/wifi.c: In function 'wifi_start_supplicant':
hardware/libhardware_legacy/wifi/wifi.c:835:4: error: expected identifier before 'unsigned'
hardware/libhardware_legacy/wifi/wifi.c:895:20: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
hardware/libhardware_legacy/wifi/wifi.c:912:26: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
I searched on Google what that meant and i found lots of thread about this here on StackOverflow and on some Linux forums but none of them referred to Android, Cyanogen or libhardware_legacy. Is it a problem with my system? There is an error in the code (code here)?
Please give me some suggestion
OK! To fix the issue i removed "const prop_info *pi" and added this instead:
struct prop_info{
unsigned serial;
};
struct prop_info *pi;
but i think that if the system compiles it's not going to boot. However i will try to dump the libhardware_legacy from who compile CM10.1 successfully since the code is the same.
UPDATE: I probably found the main issue. The same error came up again and now there are 7 of them and the problem is that they are in the init so i can't workaround. However i noticed that wifi.c and property_service.c have an header in common sys/_system_properties.h probably the main error is there somewhere. Someone has a solution for this?

Error while trying to apportable iOS app to Android

I have been trying to port my first iOS app to Android with apportable.
I have solved alot of warnings and errors but cannot get rid of this last one.
The App I made is a fitness application for jogging so it uses CoreLocation.
Everything looks good when I run apportable now except this last error:
Build/android-armeabi-debug/com.apptonix.easyrunner/testTabbedWithCore/libtestTabbedWithCore.a(DetailViewController.m.o):/Users/peterbodlund/Documents/xcodeprojects/Training/inlamning5/testTabbedWithCore/testTabbedWithCore/DetailViewController.m:function L_OBJC_CLASSLIST_REFERENCES_$_114: error: undefined reference to 'OBJC_CLASS_$_MKPinAnnotationView'
scons: * [Build/android-armeabi-debug/EasyRunner/apk/lib/armeabi/libverde.so] Error 1
scons: building terminated because of errors.
Exception AttributeError: "'NoneType' object has no attribute 'pack'" in > ignored
Usually this is an indicator that there were link errors. Check your output higher up and look for missing symbol errors.
The build log is confusing because the build is parallel by default.
Add the option -j1 to cause the build to stop immediately after the first error.

XMLVM Android to iPhone Errors

The conversion of my Android application to the iPhone ObjectX environment as described in the XMLVM user manual works almost fine on my MAC, but I end up with 3 errors in the resulting XCode:
The first two errors simply relate to missing files, namely:
org_w3c_dom_Node.h
android_app_DatePickerDialog_OnDateSetListener.h
These are clearly not files from the converted Android application. Where can I get these from?
The third is an error that keeps coming up in the file
java_lang_String.h
The error message is:
typedef NSMutableString java_lang_String: redefinition as different kind of symbol
This error has been reported before in the XMLVM user group but as far as I know has never been answered sufficiently.
About the first error:
this is part of the Android API that has not yet been implemented.
This is the reason why it can't find the files.
Now, the second problem is not actually an error, but a warning and shouldn't stop you form compiling.
If it does, it means that in your project you have set the option to make errors from these types of warnings.
You can safely turn this off and completely ignore this warning.

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