On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 18:29:54 -0800
"Philip Guenther" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I contacted the author (G. Ritter) who suggested to compile the program
> > with the debug flag (-g), and to subsequently run it in gdb.
> > I did that, but not being a developer, the output did not tell me
> > anything useful.
> ...
> > This GDB was configured as "i386-unknown-openbsd4.4"...(no debugging
> > symbols found)
>
> You may have built it with -g to include debugging symbols, but the
> binary was apparently stripped along the way. If the -s option is
> passed when doing the final linking, then remove it. If the 'strip'
> command is being run, comment it out or disable it. Then try running
> it under gdb again.
I disabled the strip command. Now, I get the output below from gdb.
I think, I'll best report it to the author of the software, as it does
not make an awful lot of sense to me.
Thanks for your support.
$ gdb troff
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This GDB was configured as "i386-unknown-openbsd4.4"...
(gdb) run
Starting program: /opt/ucb/troff
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x1c006b06 in addlig (f=1, from=0xcfbf6620, to=0) at t6.c:1340
1340 if (codetab[f][fitab[f][LIG_FF-32]] < 32)
(gdb) bt full
#0 0x1c006b06 in addlig (f=1, from=0xcfbf6620, to=0) at t6.c:1340
i = 1
j = 2
lp = (struct lgtab *) 0x0
#1 0x1c006dbd in setlig (f=1, j=6) at t6.c:1413
from = {102, 105, 0, 0}
to = -8377880580443839399
#2 0x1c008774 in loadafm (nf=1, rq=82, file=0x7cd053ed "R", supply=0x0,
required=1, spec=SPEC_PUNCT) at t6.c:2084
st = {st_dev = 16, st_ino = 8548, st_mode = 33188, st_nlink = 1, st_uid
= 1000, st_gid = 0, st_rdev = 36424, st_lspare0 = -685213332, st_atimespec =
{tv_sec = 1231455322,
tv_nsec = 586991087}, st_mtimespec = {tv_sec = 1231455322, tv_nsec =
586991087}, st_ctimespec = {tv_sec = 1231455322, tv_nsec = 606989709}, st_size
= 31354, st_blocks = 64,
st_blksize = 16384, st_flags = 0, st_gen = 0, st_lspare1 = -685641728,
__st_birthtimespec = {tv_sec = -685641696, tv_nsec = 5}, st_qspare =
{233159961, 42353225560}}
fd = 1
path = 0x8849f400 "/opt/ucblib/doctools/font/devps/R.afm"
contents = 0x861f5ba4 ""
a = (struct afmtab *) 0x84aa9a00
i = 1
have = 0
np = (struct namecache *) 0x6459
#3 0x1c001b2b in ptinit () at t10.c:237
i = 1
nw = 0
filebase = 0x7cd0540d ""
p = 0x7cd0540d ""
descp = 0x0
#4 0x1c00aed4 in init2 () at ../n1.c:447
i = 25689
j = 0
#5 0x1c00aa27 in main (argc=0, argv=0xcfbf6830) at ../n1.c:309
p = 0xcfbf6988 "/opt/ucb/troff"
j = 25689
oargv = (char **) 0xcfbf6830
