From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7837 invoked by alias); 11 Oct 2012 09:40:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 7824 invoked by uid 22791); 11 Oct 2012 09:40:41 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_BRBL_LASTEXT,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_BL,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_L3,RCVD_IN_NJABL_RELAY,RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from new.toad.com (HELO new.toad.com) (209.237.225.253) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 09:40:37 +0000 Received: from new.toad.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by new.toad.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id q9B9eZk7030182; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 02:40:35 -0700 Message-Id: <201210110940.q9B9eZk7030182@new.toad.com> To: Arthur Schwarz , gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: SIGSERV termination on return statement In-reply-to: <5076125E.3060207@gmx.net> References: <1349819318.23713.YahooMailRC@web181302.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <5074B404.9090402@gmx.net> <1349884852.11402.YahooMailRC@web181302.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <5076125E.3060207@gmx.net> Comments: In-reply-to Aurelian Melinte message dated "Wed, 10 Oct 2012 20:27:10 -0400." Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 09:40:00 -0000 From: John Gilmore X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-10/txt/msg00056.txt.bz2 It's not clear whether Mr. Schwarz is reporting that his user-program crashed with SIGSEGV, or whether he's reporting that GDB crashed with SIGSEGV while debugging his program. Or both? Please clarify. Clearly GDB should never be crashing, no matter how badly behaved the user program or compiler may be. John