On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 05:43:23PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > I'm trying to debug a gtk+ 1.2.10 application (GImageView to be specific).
> > The problem is that when I type Ctrl+C and then type bt, I get the
> > following display:
> >
> > <<<
> > #0 0x4049bc74 in poll () from /lib/libc.so.6
> > #1 0x402d9734 in g_source_remove_by_funcs_user_data ()
> > from /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0
> > Cannot access memory at address 0x2
> > >>>
> >
> > What can I do to fix it?
>
> Make sure everything is compiled with debug symbols and frame
> pointers, especially glib? It looks like gdb gets confused because the
> stack layout is different than what it expects.
>
I don't understand why it should matter. gdb can analyze the stacks of
programs that were compiled without debugging symbols.
> If you compiled the application from source (I assume you did, not
> much point trying to debug it otherwise), the path of least resistance
> is to debug only the application code and treat its library calls as
> black boxes. That means figuring out what appliation code calls the
> functions above (or what gets called by them) and setting a break
> point there explicitly.
>
Unfortunately, this is a GUI program and library calls call callbacks in
the application. I don't think I can afford to do that.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
> > I use gdb 5.2.1 on a Mandrake Linux 8.2. (it happened with gdb
> > 5.1.x, too)
>
> I doubt it has anything to do with gdb versions.
> --
> calm down, it's *only* ones and zeros.
>
> http://syscalltrack.sf.net/
> http://vipe.technion.ac.il/~mulix/
>
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