Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 09:54:30 +0200 (WET)
From: Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Symify crash
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On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 12:22:44 +0200
> > From: Erik Sandberg <erik DOT sandberg AT euroseek DOT net>
> > 
> > when attempting to symify an EXE I compiled with GCC 2.952, it crashed down
> > to this:
> 
> It happens to me on rare occasions as well.  But it is very hard to
> reproduce, and so I couldn't until now debug it.
> 
> If you can consistently reproduce the crash, rebuild SYMIFY with -g
> and try to find out where and why does it crash.  All the evidence I
> have suggests that it crashes when it reads and sorts the symbols from
> the program's file.  But I don't understand why does it crash.
> 
> (At least for me, the crashes disappear when you run SYMIFY under
> GDB.  You *have* been warned ;-)
> 

I think symify crashes are rather common thing. At least it surely crashes
when I tried to process stack trace from rhide.exe (I have not used gcc
versions earlier than gcc-2.95.2 already for a rather long time). But I
haven't looked into this more deeply... (and haven't tried to run it
under GDB)


Andris