RE: [GD-Linux] signals and exceptions

[Mads B. D. <ma...@ch...>]

On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Hal Angseesing wrote:

> That's a bit more elegant than the solution I came up with. 

Thanks, but I copied from somewhere on the web, so credit should go
somewhere else (lost the reference though).

> I then spawn addr2line to get a human readable form. As you can imagine this
> is horrid - and the spawned process is not necessarily going to start if
> this process is badly crashing.

I didn't know about that prog. I did know about c++filt - but I have
choosen not to try and be too clever, precisly because the program may be
in a very bad state. 

> Still there may be some mileage for some of you in this approach.

Definitly. 

"Someone" should build a library to make this kind of debugging
easier. Obviously the code is in the binutils...

Hmm.

Mads

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