Hello Jerry,
Jerry Coffin wrote to James Vahn :
 JV>> Segmentation fault. Which brings us to debugging these things
 JV>> under Linux... How is it done? I could get a core dump, which I
 JV>> understand is fed into gdb, but then what? Most likely the problem is
 JV>> my Hercules video, but that's beside the point. ;-)
 JC> While you're in gdb you should ( assuming things are working
 JC> correctly) be able to do most debugging type things other than actually
 JC> running the program. E.g. looking at the values of variables and such.
And what is the purpose of the core-file that is generated when a program
crashes. What can I do with that core-file?
 JC> The video you use shouldn't really make much difference - gdb is
 JC> strictly text mode in any case.
I think that what James meant, was that sat.s crashes because he makes use
of an hercules video-card. ;-)
Have a nice day, Jerry.       - Jan Wagemakers -
.!. Please forgive my flinstone-english ;-)
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