Re: Insight hangs on segv trap

[Fernando Nasser <fnasser at redhat dot com>]

Glad to know that you are finally being able to use it.

I am even happier because you used one of the bug database major
features: provide solutions to know problems :-)

Thanks for your interest on Insight and I hope you enjoy using it.

Regards,
Fernando


> guyr@zephion.net wrote:
> 
> Fernando and Keith, I got this working.  I went to the Insight bug
> database and saw PR 49.  Symptoms sounded like what I was
> experiencing, so following the advice in that PR, I downloaded the
> latest weekly build and recompiled.  Everything now works.
> 
> I'd suggested replacing the current advertised download with the
> latest weekly.  Thanks for your assistance.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fernando Nasser [mailto:fnasser@cygnus.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 1:20 PM
> To: guyr@zephion.net
> Cc: insight@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: Re: Insight hangs on segv trap
> 
> > guyr@zephion.net wrote:
> >
> > I used the dummy test program below to test the various debuggers
> I'm trying. When I went through this program in Insight using the Next
> button (step over), when I Next'd over the strcpy() line, the source
> in the window disappeared and the mouse pointer turned into a clock
> and stayed that way.  The only way I could get out was to close the
> debugger window and restart it.  Should I submit this as a bug report?
> 
> >
> > #include <iostream.h>
> > #include <string.h>
> >
> > void main()
> > {
> > char* p = NULL;
> >
> > cout << "Hello, world" << endl;
> >
> > strcpy(p, "crash me");
> > cout << "Crash time: " << p << endl;
> > }
> 
> Please try the command line "next" (without the GUI) first to see if
> it works.
> 
> Now that you have a GUI-enabled GDB, use "gdb -nw" to start it in
> command line mode.
> 
> If next is not working in command line mode it is a GDB bug, so it
> must be reported to the GDB bug database.
> 
> If it is a GUI only problem, by all means, please add it to the
> Insight bug database.  Don't forget to specify the version, which
> host, which target etc.  The above works fine in my machine for
> instance, so it may be specific to a certain type of system.
> 

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