Charm++ parallel programming system

[Andy Somogyi <somogyie AT umail.iu.edu>]

Hi folks.

I have a project which uses Charm++, this project is built both as an executable and as a shared library. 

Thanks to Gengbin Zheng for the tip to build as a shared lib. 

The problem I'm having now is when an exception (std::runtime_error in this case) is thrown, it IS PROPERLY CAUGHT when running as a stand alone executable. Again, it works perfectly fine when running as a stand alone executable. 

However, when running as shared library, any exception, wether or not it is caught results in a segfault, with the error message:

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error'

Abort trap

The relevant stack trace is:

Exception Type:  EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)

Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000

Crashed Thread:  0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Application Specific Information:

abort() called

Thread 0 Crashed:  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

0   libSystem.B.dylib             0x00007fff87e580b6 __kill + 10

1   libSystem.B.dylib             0x00007fff87ef89f6 abort + 83

2   testlib.so                       0x0000000102b53132 __gnu_cxx::__verbose_terminate_handler() + 360

3   testlib.so                       0x0000000102b51ea5 __cxxabiv1::__terminate(void (*)()) + 11

4   testlib.so                       0x0000000102b51eda __cxxabiv1::__unexpected(void (*)()) + 0

5   testlib.so                       0x0000000102b51fc0 __gxx_exception_cleanup(_Unwind_Reason_Code, _Unwind_Exception*) + 0

6   testlib.so                       0x0000000102a1f025 DCDFile_init(DCDFile*, _object*, _object*) + 1598 (PyDCDFile.C:113)

I'm linking the shared lib as:

testlib.so: $(INCDIR) $(DSTDIR) $(OBJS) $(LIBS) $(DSTDIR)/SharedLibModuleInit.o

$(MAKEBUILDINFO) 

$(CHARMC) -shared -verbose -ld++-option \

"$(COPTI)$(CHARMINC) $(COPTI)$(INCDIR) $(COPTI)$(SRCDIR) $(CXXOPTS)" \

$(CHARM_MODULES) -language charm++ \

-L$(CHARMLIB) \

$(BUILDINFO).o \

$(OBJS) \

$(CHARMOPTS) \

$(EXTRALINKLIBS) \

$(PYTHONLIBS) \

$(DSTDIR)/SharedLibModuleInit.o \

    $(CHARMLIB)/libmemory-default.o \

    $(CHARMLIB)/libthreads-default.o \

    $(CHARMLIB)/libldb-rand.o  \

-lsupc++ -lstdc++ \

-lck -lconv-cplus-y -lconv-core -lconv-util -lckqt -ldl -lm \

-lmoduleNeighborLB -lmoduleHybridLB -lmoduleRefineLB -lmoduleGreedyLB \

-o testlib.so

Any ideas?

thanks