[Valgrind-users] Valgrind not able to detect .code seg corruption ?

[Banibrata D. <du...@in...>]

hi,
 
i'm trying to debug a situation where my running application has suddenly
stopped working, and worse, has started dumping core. so i ran it thru
valgrind, and valgrind itelf dumped core, i.e. wasn't able to catch the
SEGV.
on running it in instruction single-step mode in debugger, i found that the
.code segment corruption had happened.
my question is, can't valgrind detect the origination and cause of such
problems ?

thanks & regards,
Banibrata Dutta
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