Re[2]: GDB crashing
Re[2]: GDB crashing
- Subject: Re[2]: GDB crashing
- From: Peter Mulholland <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 08:45:07 +0100
Hello Scott,
Sunday, April 15, 2007, 7:09:17 PM, you wrote:
>> From the replies i got so far i would guess that it is normal for gdb
>> to hit this assert() when debugging an application and it is not
>> considered a bug in gdb, is that correct?
> Sort of in between. The ideal is that gdb not crash, however that may not be
> attainable if you mess up memory too badly, however it doesn't happen often,
> however it does sometimes happen.
The debugger should be isolated from the debugged process, to the
point where this doesn't happen at all. I have never crashed
Microsoft's debuggers even though I've had very bad memory issues
(once enough to trash the whole code segment)
I've never thought gdb particularly good, mind you....
--
Best regards,
Peter mailto:email@hidden
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