[gdal-dev] [SOLVED] GDAL crashing on Ubuntu 8.10

[Even Rouault]

Hi all,

Several users have reported over the past few weeks various crashes when 
running GDAL, in particular in OGRFeature::GetFieldAsString(). It has been 
finally identified that it was due to stricter guard logic in GCC that was 
enabled in Ubuntu 8.10 and later versions because -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 is set 
by default and is activated when -O is set to 2 or higher.
A similar issue was detected in DTEDDataset::CreateCopy() a few weeks ago and 
was also fixed.

The fixes have been applied to current development version, 1.6 stable branch 
and 1.5 branch. Please refer to http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2896 and 
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2824 if you need to apply the relevant 
patches without waiting for next stable releases.

However, it might be possible that similar issues still remain, especially in 
less popular drivers, so please report it.

Best regards,

Even