[LCP]debugging a Segmentation fault

[Md Zaheeruddin Khan]

Use GNU debugger to find out exactly which line caused the 
fault. This is avaliable under gcc compiler (Linux OS)

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-----Original Message-----
From: Karthik Vishwanath <karthikv at Alum.Dartmouth.ORG>
To: linuxcprogramming at lists.linux.org.au
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 03:00:45 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [LCP]debugging a Segmentation fault

> Hello,
> 
> I develop a monte-carlo code written in standard C. I recently decided
> to
> "add features" to the previous stable version and now the code aborts
> with
> a Segmentation fault. I suspect the code is executing different parts
> of
> the code before crashing, on different runs (and therefore crashing at
> different points?).  There is no core dumped either.
> 
> Can I discover which source-line caused the program to abort (or get
> information about which function it was, etc.), or trap the signal 
> within the code and print out details -- how? 
> 
> 
> Thanks! 
> 
> -Karthik
> 
> 
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