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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Rich Rattanni <rattanni@gmail.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: Debugging glibc crashes with GDB
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 01:15:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070312011502.GA29117@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3187bd480703111104r46b15863g2d59714f5cc3793e@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 02:04:41PM -0400, Rich Rattanni wrote:
> Below you will find the GDB output related to my question.  My problem
> is that when I try to debug a program after receiving a glibc abort
> error (MALLOC_CHECK = 2) I cannot backtrace the program to find out
> what piece of my application caused the problem.  I can see the call
> to raise and abort, but then I get the error message "Backtrace
> stopped:
> frame did not save the PC".

I believe this is a known problem with the ARM port of GCC.  What GCC
version are you using to build glibc?

It doesn't save the return address anywhere when it reaches abort;
this is a somewhat limited value optimization.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-03-12  1:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-11 18:04 Rich Rattanni
2007-03-11 21:36 ` Mark Kettenis
2007-03-11 22:37   ` shanevolpe
2007-03-12  0:19     ` Rich Rattanni
2007-03-12  1:15 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2007-03-12  8:32   ` Mark Kettenis
2007-03-12 11:04     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-03-12 23:59       ` Michael Snyder
2007-03-13 15:51         ` Daniel Jacobowitz

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