Re: abort()ing inside segv handler

From: James Turner (turnerjh@XTN.NET)
Date: 06/30/98


George <greerga@CIRCLEMUD.ORG> writes:

> >Has anyone had any experience with getting a clean core file using
> >abort() (or any other piece of crashing code) inside a SEGV handler?
> [...]
> >#0  segvsig (sig=11) at comm.c:1751
> >#1  0xbfffc5d4 in ?? ()
>
> Could have been corrupted by the crash.  Try using this in the segv
> handler if you have GCC:
>
> fprintf(stderr, "%p\n", __builtin_return_address(0));
>
> Then see how that compares to #1.  (Although it might be a good idea to use
> something other than fprintf...)

Wasn't corrupted.  "kill -SEGV `pidof threads`" produced the same
effect for some reason.

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James Turner                chip.turner@vanderbilt.edu   UIN: 1102038
                            http://www.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/~turnerjh/


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