Dear Moderator! Yesterday I posted a mail to boost-users. I got a reply, that my mail awaits moderation. That mail also contained a link. The link is dead since yesterday evening. Which does usually mean that the mail was posted, but it did not show up. I have enclosed the mail again below, Thanks, Lars Kunert The following attached (downsized) program implements a queue which contains a single worker process. Int's that are pushed into the queue are popped by the worker and processed... The problem is, the program ends up with an segmentation fault. Valgrind tells me that the stack is overwritten. ==4927== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s) ==4927== at 0x8073536: strstr (in /local/home/lkunert/projects/pg-build-4.0.3/src/cdag/threads/queue_error) ==4927== by 0x80609F5: pthread_initialize (smp.h:47) ==4927== by 0x80B2DE1: (within /local/home/lkunert/projects/pg-build-4.0.3/src/cdag/threads/queue_error) ==4927== by 0x80480E8: (within /local/home/lkunert/projects/pg-build-4.0.3/src/cdag/threads/queue_error) ==4927== by 0x80641A0: __libc_csu_init (in /local/home/lkunert/projects/pg-build-4.0.3/src/cdag/threads/queue_error) ==4927== by 0x8063FC2: __libc_start_main (in /local/home/lkunert/projects/pg-build-4.0.3/src/cdag/threads/queue_error) ==4927== by 0x8048120: ??? (start.S:102) ==4927== ==4927== Syscall param write(buf) points to uninitialised byte(s) ==4927== at 0x8063044: write (in /local/home/lkunert/projects/pg-build-4.0.3/src/cdag/threads/queue_error) ==4927== by 0x804C241: boost::thread::thread(boost::function0boost::function_base > const&) (in /local/home/lkunert/projects/pg-build-4.0.3/src/cdag/threads/queue_error) ==4927== by 0x804AD26: QueueError::QueueError(unsigned) (QueueError.cxx:74) ==4927== by 0x8048287: main (QueueError.cxx:150) ==4927== Address 0x52BFE04C is on thread 1's stack Line 74 corresponds to the initailisation of the worker. The thread-manual writes: *explicit* thread(*const* boost::function0<*void*>& threadfunc); *Effects*: Starts a new thread of execution and constructs a thread http://www.boost.org/doc/html/thread.html object representing it. Copies |threadfunc| (which in turn copies the function object wrapped by |threadfunc|) to an internal location which persists for the lifetime of the new thread of execution. Calls |operator()| on the copy of the |threadfunc| function object in the new thread of execution. Which sound good to me. Were is the mistake. class QueueError { // *** Typedefs ************************************************************* private: typedef std::queue<int> Queue; typedef boost::thread Thread; public: typedef Queue::size_type ST; // *** Inner Classes ******************************************************** private: class Worker { private: QueueError* outer_p_; public: Worker( QueueError* outer_p ) : outer_p_( outer_p ) {}; public: void operator()() { outer_p_->worker_run_(); }; }; // *** Attributes ************************************************************ public: private: ST max_queue_size_; Queue queue_; Thread thread_; boost::mutex monitor_; boost::condition space_available_, job_available_; // *** Constructors / Destructors ******************************************** public: explicit QueueError( ST max_queue_size =1000 ) : max_queue_size_( max_queue_size ) , thread_( Worker( this )) {}; // *** Methods *************************************************************** public: void push( int i ) { boost::mutex::scoped_lock lock( monitor_ ); while( queue_.size() >= max_queue_size_ ) { space_available_.wait( lock ); }; queue_.push( i ); job_available_.notify_one(); }; protected: void worker_run_() { int i =0; while( true ) { i = worker_pop_(); worker_work_( i ); }; }; int worker_pop_() { boost::mutex::scoped_lock lock( monitor_ ); while( queue_.empty()) { job_available_.wait( lock ); }; int i = queue_.front(); queue_.pop(); space_available_.notify_one(); return i; }; void worker_work_( int i ) { for( int ii= 0; ii < i; ++ii ) { // do some work double divident = 10000; double sum; for( uint divisor =1; divisor < divident; ++divisor ) { sum = divident / divisor; }; }; }; }; // class QueueError int main() { QueueError q; q.push( 10 ); q.push( 9 ); q.push( 8 ); q.push( 7 ); q.push( 6 ); return 0; };