On Wednesday, May 1, 2002, at 03:48  PM, Damian Steer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:

> This is the problem. Nothing seems to think that it /is/ a crash. gdb
> says 'no backtrace', and crash report is very quiet, too. Hmm.

What must be happening is that Amaya sees the error, and so it just 
quietly quits without crashing. The best way to get a backtrace it to 
find where the error actually happened.

Here are a few possible ways. To use these, you'll have to know how to 
set a breakpoint in gdb: you just write "break filename:1234" where 
filename is the name of a file, and 1234 is a line number, eg: "break 
main.c:45". Or to break at a function, you write "break functionname".

1) If there's an error string that Amaya prints when it sees your error, 
go into the build directory and search for that string in the source 
files: "grep -Ir 'Some error string' . ". Set a breakpoint at the line 
where it prints the error.

2) It's likely that Amaya quits by calling exit() or abort(). Try 
setting a breakpoint in these functions: "break exit", "break abort".

3) If it's a C++ program that uses exceptions, try and find the "base" 
exception class. Then set a breakpoint in the constructor of this 
exception. If you don't know what this means. If you don't know C++ (and 
Amaya is written in it), post back and I'll try and give more details.

Good luck!

Dave Vasilevsky


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