On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisp...@gmx.com>wrote:

> On Friday, June 08, 2012 19:30:57 Jarl André"
> <jarl.an...@gmail.com>@puremagic.com 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.
>
> Turn on core dumps and use gdb. It'll give a backtrace and allow you to
> look
> at the state of the program when the segfault occured. That's pretty much
> the
> standard way to figure out what happened when a segfault occurs.
>

And use GDC because DMD's debug symbols on Linux are broken enough to crash
GDB at times. GDC is generally flawless.

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