is it a bug or a feature ?

[jmielnic]

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Hi,
I have thought/remember 
that it was possible to invoke some library functions
under gdb 
(see below).
For 4.18 this feature does NOT work.
Is it a feature or a bug ?
              Best regards,
              Julian
(gdb) p s2
$1 = 0x221a8 "/vidtool1 / Calroot / Calaveras / server / src / ods / sfs", ' ' 
<repeats 21 times>, "\n"
(gdb) p s3
$2 = 0x22218 "/vidtool1 / Calroot / Calaveras / server / src / ods / sfs", ' ' 
<repeats 21 times>, "\n"
(gdb) p strcmp(s2,s3)

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0xef629670 in ?? ()
The program being debugged stopped while in a function called from GDB.
When the function (at 0xef629670) is done executing, GDB will silently
stop (instead of continuing to evaluate the expression containing
the function call).