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Re: Crashes with no backtrace when printing
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Re: Crashes with no backtrace when printing


  • Subject: Re: Crashes with no backtrace when printing
  • From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 21:44:21 -0700


On 3 Jul '08, at 4:24 PM, Ben wrote:

Attaching to program: `/Path/goes/here', process 14859.
Cannot access memory at address 0x9ead7
Cannot access memory at address 0x9ead7

I've found that gdb-in-Xcode is more reliable at being able to get a backtrace if you launch the program with the debugger (i.e. "breakpoints enabled"), versus having it try to attach only when the process crashes. But it's still not 100%.


It's not clear that this is a problem with gdb, though. Some program bugs can corrupt the stack or other areas of memory sufficiently to confuse gdb. Those can be a pain to debug. The only thing I can suggest is to set a breakpoint as near the point of the crash as you can, and then start single-stepping. If you're lucky, at some consistent spot the debugger will go blooey as the stack gets wiped out; then you can try to figure out what's wrong with the code there.

—Jens_______________________________________________

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