-fstack-check on Linux x86--Dumb question...

[Geoff Keating]

"George T. Talbot" <george@phat.com> writes:

> <whine>
> It would be a nice patch to GDB and/or GNU/Linux to print:
> 
>     "Program received SIGSEGV at address 0x2394782 while attempting
>     to read from address 0xFDFEFFF."
> 
> Right now, it just gives me the program counter.  Of course, I'm not really
> sure of how to patch GDB or the kernel to give me such support.
> </whine>

The program 'catchsegv' which comes with GNU libc 2.1 and later does
exactly this.

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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com>