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Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 09:13:14 +0200 (EET)
From: Esa A E Peuha <peuha AT cc DOT helsinki DOT fi>
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On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, DJ Delorie wrote:

> > Is it reasonable to ask people to install GDB just to get a traceback?
>
> If people are getting tracebacks, the best course of action is to
> debug and hopefully fix the problem.  GDB is a better tool than symify
> for this.  If we had had core files all along, symify would never have
> been written.

Even so, I think that looking at the symified traceback and reading the
source at relevant points is a good first step at debugging the crash.
Of course, if we had core files, then GDB would be better for this than
symify, but as we don't, I'm not all that willing to rerun the program
under GDB (or any other debugger) just to see where it crashes.

-- 
Esa Peuha
student of mathematics at the University of Helsinki
http://www.helsinki.fi/~peuha/