Re: SegFault

[Kolpur Srinivasa Chary <srinu dot kolpur at gmail dot com>]

Thanks for that information Tom, but what is the effect of -g3 option in
gcc. Is it to get the line number where the error occcured when gdb was
debugging ?

Regards
cnu

On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 10:07 -0500, Tom St Denis wrote:
> Kolpur Srinivasa Chary wrote: 
> > Hi Tom,
> > I didn't get you ... can you please elaborate it.. please .. I am new to gdb ..
> >   
> 
> When you compile your source, add -g3, e.g.
> 
> gcc -g3 myfile.c -o myprog
> gdb myprog
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
> 
> > Regards
> > cnu
> > 
> > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Tom St Denis <tstdenis@ellipticsemi.com> wrote:
> >   
> > > Kolpur Srinivasa Chary wrote:
> > >     
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > I got segmentation fault when I compiled a program with gcc, so I have
> > > > run the executable file to gdb.
> > > > When I tried running the program through gdb, it displayed the following
> > > > message
> > > > 
> > > > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> > > > 0x08048ccb in main ()
> > > > 
> > > > But why is it not telling me the line number at which segfault
> > > > occured? Please help me regarding this issue.
> > > > 
> > > >       
> > > You have to compile with debug information turned on, try adding "-g3" to
> > > your build, also avoid adding strip or "-s" to your build.
> > > 
> > > Tom
> > > 
> > >     
> > 
> >   
>