From: Jim Nelson <james4765@verizon.net>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: debugging a Segmentation fault
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 05:36:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41650E01.1050504@verizon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20041007000122.0207f680@celine>
Ray Olszewski wrote:
> At 02:43 AM 10/7/2004 -0400, Karthik Vishwanath wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I develop a monte-carlo code written in standard C. I recently
>> decided to
>> "add features" to the previous stable version and now the code aborts
>> with
>> a Segmentation fault. I suspect the code is executing different parts of
>> the code before crashing, on different runs (and therefore crashing at
>> different points?). There is no core dumped either.
>>
>> Can I discover which source-line caused the program to abort (or get
>> information about which function it was, etc.), or trap the signal
>> within the code and print out details -- how?
>>
>> Please excuse me if this post is off-topic for this list -- can some one
>> please point me to a list where such questions are not, otherwise/as
>> well?
>
>
> The usual tools for debugging Linux/Unix C and C++ programs are gdb
> and strace. Do you need more specific direction than that? I haven't
> used gdb all the much myself, bu I have used strace to track down
> segfaults in the past ... messy output, hard to read, but tells you
> just about everything the program is doing.
>
> You do want to compile the program with debugging support in ...
> basically, that means maintaining the symbol table (not "stripping"
> the executable), which I believe is the default behavior of gcc anyway.
>
Best way to get gdb to work to its fullest extent is to use the gcc flag
-gdb3 (it compiles in a whole lot of debugging information, and even
allows you to single-step through the source code, set conditional
breakpoints, and much, much more). gdb is a little hard to use at
first, and if you have KDE, you might want to try kdbg - I haven't used
it much myself, though.
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2004-10-07 7:05 ` debugging a Segmentation fault Ray Olszewski
2004-10-07 9:36 ` Jim Nelson [this message]
2004-10-07 9:42 ` Jim Nelson
2004-10-07 6:43 Karthik Vishwanath
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