CLISP - an ANSI Common Lisp / Feature Requests / #27 Better post-mortem on segfault

#27 Better post-mortem on segfault

Status: open

Owner: Bruno Haible

Labels: GC/Memory Management (4)

Priority: 5

Updated: 2017-12-26

Created: 2006-09-26

Creator: Sam Steingold

Private: No

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.clisp.devel:13211

it would be nice if clisp gave more useful information
about its state on segfault - especially if the reason
is its interaction with the kernel

Discussion

Bruno Haible - 2017-12-26

On the other hand, upon SIGSEGV, SIGABRT, SIGILL the developer needs to use gdb, and anything that hinders the debugging with gdb should be avoided.

Not sure we can find a good compromise between these wishes...

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