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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 08:48:07 -0500
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Subject: Re: GCC untrackable crashes
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 06:43:40PM -0800, Kevin Camera wrote:
> >Thanks for the tip.  In fact, the debugger was in thread 1, and the only
> >other thread did not offer any other information.  So unfortunately the
> >problem was with the compiler or debugger, since all threads had no trace
> >information.
> 
> Hmm.  As someone who uses the compiler and debugger on an almost daily basis
> I have to say that I have never seen this behavior on a program that was
> compiled with debugging info (-g).
> 

Well, I can't say that I use GDB that often but everytime that I've used
it I see this problem.  I've been able to switch to the assembler
listing and set breakpoints on each instruction of the object containing
main() and be able to get a source code point of problem.

YMMV,
Earnie.

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