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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: jlm <jsado_sc1@earthlink.net>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Backtrace not giving meaningful info
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 17:12:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030201171246.GC29662@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1044113934.7232.24.camel@PC2>

On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 10:38:52AM -0500, jlm wrote:
> I'm using gdb 5.3 to debug a C++ program that has been compiled with gcc
> 3.2 using the -gdwarf-2 -g3 flags. I can reliably make my program crash,
> and at that point, I want to know where my program crashed at, so I do a
> backtrace:
> 
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x4007cbd8 in ?? ()
> #1  0x4007b208 in ?? ()
> #2  0x40079560 in ?? ()
> #3  0x4008e300 in ?? ()
> #4  0x4008d44c in ?? ()
> #5  0x4008e9f7 in ?? ()
> #6  0x4006da3f in ?? ()
> #7  0x4006d25a in ?? ()
> #8  0x40082a2b in ?? ()
> #9  0x4008fc30 in ?? ()
> #10 0x4008fa6f in ?? ()
> #11 0x408d12c3 in
> Glib::SignalProxyNormal::slot0_void_callback(_GObject*, void*)
> (self=0x818d180, data=0xbfffd764) at signalproxy.cc:101
> 
> I have two questions. One, why doesn't the backtrace go all the way back
> to main()? Two, what must I do in order to get some more meaningful
> information in the backtrace? The ?? doesn't help me much.

Not enough information.  You need to figure out where those addresses
actually are; are they in a shared library somewhere?  Try "info
shared".

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer


  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-01 17:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-01 15:43 jlm
2003-02-01 17:12 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2003-02-02 23:15   ` jlm

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