From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: dharter@lycos.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is this a kernel problem? segmentation fault
Date: 14 Nov 2001 13:35:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <je8zd9o7hg.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <IPKBFBEEDJJJACAA@mailcity.com>
In-Reply-To: <IPKBFBEEDJJJACAA@mailcity.com> ("Donald Harter"'s message of "Tue, 13 Nov 2001 19:40:08 -0600")
"Donald Harter" <dharter@lycos.com> writes:
|> I started by debugging this program where I was getting a
|> segmentation fault. I used gdb and traced the bug to a call
|> instruction. I dissasembled the code and stepped through the
|> instructions. The program got a segmentation fault when it
|> executed an assembly language call instruction. Using gdb I was
|> able to disassemble the instructions at the called address. Why
|> can gdb disasemble instructions at a call address and a call to
|> that address fails with a segmentation fault?
Perhaps a stack overflow, or stack pointer is pointing to lala land.
Andreas.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-14 12:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-14 1:40 Is this a kernel problem? segmentation fault Donald Harter
2001-11-14 10:37 ` Terje Eggestad
2001-11-14 12:01 ` Roman Zippel
2001-11-14 12:35 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
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