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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Cristian Zamfir <cristian.zamfir@epfl.ch>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: backtrace when corrupt stack
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:36:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3pr4jfuv2.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <33F51508-83E5-4791-ADA3-DA8591582C49@epfl.ch> (Cristian Zamfir's 	message of "Fri, 5 Feb 2010 16:24:11 +0100")

>>>>> "Cristian" == Cristian Zamfir <cristian.zamfir@epfl.ch> writes:

Cristian> Is it possible to get an accurate backtrace in this case?

In addition to what Robert said, you may want to try valgrind instead of
gdb in a case like this.  That is usually the tool I try first when I
have this kind of bug.

Tom


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-02-05 17:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-05 15:24 Cristian Zamfir
2010-02-05 17:16 ` Robert Dewar
2010-02-05 17:36 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2010-02-05 19:05 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-02-05 19:58   ` Cristian Zamfir
2010-02-05 20:27     ` Andreas Schwab
2010-02-05 19:56 ` Dave Korn
2010-02-05 20:05   ` Cristian Zamfir
2010-02-05 20:39     ` Dave Korn

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