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From:	Simone Navari <simnav AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Question about traceback with no debug info
Date:	Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:45:56 -0800 (PST)
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On 28 Gen, 20:46, "Gerrit van Niekerk" <gerri DOT  DOT  DOT  AT gpvno DOT co DOT za> wrote:
> On 28 Jan 2008 at 7:43, sim DOT  DOT  DOT  AT gmail DOT com wrote:
>
> > Having the source code used to compile a software with no debugging
> > information in the executable, is it possible to know the position in
> > source where a SIGSEGV signal is raised, only using the call frame
> > traceback ? If yes... how ?
>
> Yes, but you will have to compile the source code with symbolic
> debugging (-g). Then you can run symify giving the image with symbols
> as an argument even if the stripped image was run when the SIGSEGV
> happened.

It doesn't work correctly ! I've tryed to crash the same software
linked with and without stripping flag, then calling symify with the
not stripped executable filename, I got different results and
obviously the correct is the one linked without -s flag !
Thank you anyway.

Simone Navari.

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