[LCP]debugging a Segmentation fault

[Jack Lloyd]

Compile your code with -g (or -ggdb, which may give better results), and run
your executable from inside gdb:

$ gdb your_executable
<GDB version info>
(gdb) run

After it crashes, the 'backtrace' command will (in theory) give you the line
number and stack trace of where you crashed.

-Jack

On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 03:00:45AM -0400, Karthik Vishwanath wrote:
> 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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