Re: identifying cause of segfault with gdb?

[Jan Rendek]

Amit Bhatia wrote:
> Hello.
>  Is it possible to identify the source of a segmentation fault(which is most
> probably being caused due to memory access of place which I am not allowed
> to) using gdb?
>  I wish to know the name of the erring call or line no in the method where
> this could be happening.
>  I am using g++ 3.2 on redhat 9.0, and do compile with -c -pg flag.(and
> finally make libmyown.a and then link it to the compiled test program).

You must turn the debug information on using the -g flag.
GDB will be able to use the extra info to point out where
your program crashes

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Jan Rendek
INRIA Lorraine
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