Re: How can I trace a segfault on program start?

["Eric G. Miller" <egm2@jps.net>]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 11:04:52AM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> I have compiled a program with gcc 2.95.  It segfaults immediately on starting
> and neither gdb nor strace reveal any useful information:
> 
> 
> olly@linda:.../src$ people
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> olly@linda:.../src$ gdb people
> GNU gdb 2001-07-05-cvs (MI_OUT)
> ...
> (gdb) run
> Starting program: /usr1/proj/bray/gtk/people_glade/src/people 
> 
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x00000001 in ?? ()
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x00000001 in ?? ()
> Cannot access memory at address 0x0
                                  ^^^^
				  Obviously an error.

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Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>