On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Tom Russo wrote: > IMHO, the debugging output is almost useless for most segfault hunting, > as it's generally been the case that the debugging output that's there was > put there to find bugs in code that's already been fixed. New segfaults > have almost invariably required either debugger work or new debugging > printfs. Using that output will probably result in more red herrings than > real clues.
Can't really argue with that, other than to say that every once in a while they'll show us something obvious. Not often, but due to the simplicity of this option compared to learning how to use a debugger, it's sometimes worth trying for the newer Linux user. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U "The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
