From:	Vic <tudor AT cam DOT org>
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Subject:	Re: One for the Gurus
Date:	Wed, 04 Jun 1997 16:20:59 -0400
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Andrew Crabtree wrote:
> So, my next thought was to load it up into GDB and fix the problem.
> Well, no luck.  Things run perfectly under GDB.
I can't help you on this one(I'm not a guru :) but I had a similar
problem: I have a program in allegro (3D) that usually crashes when I
move because I don't have any clipping function and the program tries to
draw outside of the screen. It allways crashes with a SIGSEGV. So I
wanted to catch the output and i did something like
redir -e error.txt 3d.exe
What do you know?! The stuff doesn't crash anymore! I can move in any
direction and put my cube way past the screen boundaries-it won't crash!
When I exit and look at the eror.txt file, I find the same SIGSEGV and
traceback but the program that crashed was redir!
So, maybe these programs like GDB or redir modify the space where your
program executes so that a (indirect) consequence is that it doesn't
crash anymore?
-- 
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