On Sat, 12 Oct 1996, Ground Zero Enterprises wrote: > This probably will sopund newbie-ish to some people but how can I > go about using gdb to track down some of the memory crash bugs in OasisOLC? > Trying to use core files cause the crash is always in soem malloc related > fucntion or just ?? with some memory address (yes I compile with -g, > seems only memory related crashes show a bunch of ?? entries in the core > file). Is there some way to track how the memory is being changed so I > can figure out what function is causing the problem? I am running Linux > and although I had more crashes on the Solaris system I was on, I still > get crashes like this _sometimes_ when using zedit new. Even if it does > crash tho all files are properly created, it just crashes a second after > I type the command. Any one have any suggestions. It might be useful to 'print' variables and their contents and then check how they're used in zedit. <*=-+Daniel+-=*> "Forgive me father, for I am sin." +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://cspo.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list_faq.html | +-----------------------------------------------------------+
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