On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 19:30:57 +0200, Jarl André wrote: > Evry single time I encounter them I yawn. It means using the next > frickin hour to comment away code, add more log statements and try to > eleminate whats creating the hell of bugz, segmantation fault. Why can't > the compiler tell me anything else than the fact that i have referenced > data that does not exist? Thanks I knew that. Now, please tell me where > the error occured.... Jeezes.
The compiler can't really help you (aside from maybe adding dereference checks everywhere) because you have a logic error, not something that can be statically determined. This is why debuggers exist. Whenever I get a segfault, I fire up GDB and recreate it. If you've compiled with -g, GDB can usually tell you the exact line the problem occurred on and a full backtrace to help you figure out how you got there.
