On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Chris Miller
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Dec 23, 2008, at 6:41 AM, Ryan Graham wrote:
>> And in the case of strcpy(), strlcpy(), memcpy(), memset(), and
>> similar functions, they probably don't exist as functions in the
>> compiled code. These small standard functions tend to be built into
>> the compiler and injected in-line when a program is compiled. This
>> allows them to be written in optimized assembly without having to be
>> called as functions, which could negate the optimizations.
>>
>> If you are getting a segfault in strcpy(), you are passing it bad
>> data, so pick a breakpoint in your code just before you call it.
>
>
> Most of stdlib is implemented in the kernel itself.
>

Ya, that's another spot where a debugger will likely choke. Anything
involving system calls such as file or network access.

~Ryan

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