Re: Bug#131033: gdb 5.1 dumped core on me [was: Emacs abort under gdb]

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 11:21:12AM +0100, Francesco Potorti` wrote:
>    Sorry, I don't understand what do you mean.
> 
> You couldn't :-) It was probably the result of some errors on my part,
> don't know what.
> 
>    Can you show the GDB backtrace from this crash?
> 
>  GNU gdb 5.1
>  Copyright 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>  GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
>  welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
>  Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
>  There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
>  This GDB was configured as "i386-linux"...(no debugging symbols found)...
> 
>  warning: core file may not match specified executable file.
>  Core was generated by `gdb -x ./emacs.gdb'.
>  Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
>  #0  0x080e3917 in child_xfer_memory ()
>  (gdb) bt
>  #0  0x080e3917 in child_xfer_memory ()
>  #1  0x080b2adb in do_xfer_memory ()
>  #2  0x080b2bec in do_xfer_memory ()

Francesco, is it possible that a data structure you were trying to read
was very large?  If so, this is fixed in post-5.1 GDB.

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
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