Interpreting a gdb backtrace

[Ken Brown]

On 5/18/2012 6:45 PM, jojelino wrote:
> On 2012-05-19 AM 6:08, Ken Brown wrote:
>> I'm trying to debug an emacs crash and am having trouble getting a
>> useful backtrace after the crash. Here's an example:
>>
>> #0 0x00289c08 in ?? ()
>> No symbol table info available.
>> #1 0x007ba148 in _malloc_mutex ()
>> No symbol table info available.
>> #2 0x00000000 in ?? ()
>> No symbol table info available.
>>
> i think you should provide symbol file of emacs to gdb. if it was
> stripped, you had better to build emacs from source code with -g (at
> least gcc 4.5 for CFI that gdb need to backtrace the stack frame with
> ease).

I built emacs with -g -O0.  gdb had the symbol table at the start of the 
debugging session.  It's just after the crash that everything is messed up.

Ken


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