[PLUG] mozilla products segfaulting

Andrew Munkres amunk at pdx.edu
Sat Nov 6 02:49:33 UTC 2004


On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Kris wrote:

> Any gdb magic I can run to see what exactly is going on?  The
> gdb attempt I tried displas a lot of "no debugging symbols" so
> I think I have a not-friendly-to-debugging version (makes sense
> considering it isn't a cvs release or nightly build).

The debugging symbols are not present if the program was not compiled with
the "-g" switch for gcc present, or if it was present but the resulting
binary was then run through the "strip" utility. Generally, packaged
programs from distros don't have the symbols present, because (IIUC) they
take up memory while the program is running.




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