On Aug 6, 2009, at 3:59 PM, Simon King wrote:

>
> Dear Minh,
>
> On 7 Aug., 00:46, Minh Nguyen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> This is unrelated but: the version of GCC that is distributed with
>> openSUSE 11.0 is
>>
>> $ gcc --version
>> gcc (SUSE Linux) 4.3.1 20080507 (prerelease) [gcc-4_3-branch  
>> revision 135036]
>> Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.   
>> There is NO
>> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR  
>> PURPOSE.
>>
>> If you read carefully, it's a prerelease version of GCC, not a stable
>> release.
>
> Strange indeed. But probably not the reason for my problem, as it
> occurs on sage.math as well (and even more persistently), but with a
> different error message.
>
>> This wiki page contains some pointers:
>>
>> http://wiki.sagemath.org/ValgrindingSage
>
> Yes, valgrind might be an option, too. Thank you for mentioning it!
>
> I came to asking about "sage -gdb" since sage's last words at crashing
> suggest to use "sage -gdb". But then I would expect that it is
> explained in detail in the documentation. However, searching "sage -
> gdb" in the developer's guide or reference manual yields nothing.

Start it up with sage -gdb. Hitting ctl-C will dump you into the  
debugger. From there just google around for gdb documentation--sage- 
gdb is just running sage under gdb.

- Robert



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