On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 11:21:12AM +0100, Francesco Potorti` wrote: > Sorry, I don't understand what do you mean. > > You couldn't :-) It was probably the result of some errors on my part, > don't know what. > > Can you show the GDB backtrace from this crash? > > GNU gdb 5.1 > Copyright 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are > welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. > Type "show copying" to see the conditions. > There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. > This GDB was configured as "i386-linux"...(no debugging symbols found)... > > warning: core file may not match specified executable file. > Core was generated by `gdb -x ./emacs.gdb'. > Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. > #0 0x080e3917 in child_xfer_memory () > (gdb) bt > #0 0x080e3917 in child_xfer_memory () > #1 0x080b2adb in do_xfer_memory () > #2 0x080b2bec in do_xfer_memory ()
Francesco, is it possible that a data structure you were trying to read was very large? If so, this is fixed in post-5.1 GDB. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer _______________________________________________ Bug-gdb mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gdb