• Kagamin <spam here.lot> Nov 07 2010
• Daniel Gibson <metalcaedes gmail.com> Nov 07 2010

Kagamin <spam here.lot> writes:

FeepingCreature Wrote:

 This means stack traces are out unless you have special handling for segfaults
that decodes the stack and prints the error pos. That in turn means you need to
have a debugger attached to get stacktraces, which can be annoying especially
in long-running programs where the crash is often the first indication you have
of a problem.
 

Daniel Gibson <metalcaedes gmail.com> writes:

Kagamin schrieb:
 FeepingCreature Wrote:
 
 This means stack traces are out unless you have special handling for segfaults
that decodes the stack and prints the error pos. That in turn means you need to
have a debugger attached to get stacktraces, which can be annoying especially
in long-running programs where the crash is often the first indication you have
of a problem.




depends on your system, linux doesn't do core dumps by default, you have to
allow it with
ulimit -c <somevalue>