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From: Steve Waldo <steven DOT j DOT waldo AT seagate DOT com>
Subject:  Re: seg fault produces stackdump with no stack trace
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 17:55:24 +0000 (UTC)
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Thanks to all for your prompt replies! Much appreciated.

I'm amazed that the stack trace is so wimpy. All I did to trigger the example 
was to add a call to this function to intentionally crash:

int letsCrash()
{
   int (*myfunc)() = 0;
   return myfunc();
}

With the debugger, it produces the following message at crash time:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00000000 in ?? ()
(gdb) 

Even the debugger didn't know where it was anymore! It's obvious in this case 
why it went off in the weeds, but I would have thought the stack would still 
be accessible.

The real crash is occurring too intermittently to catch it in the debugger. 
That's why I was hoping for a stack trace, so I could at least know which 
function to set a breakpoint in.

Thanks again,
--Steve


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