Martin Blapp wrote: > Now rm(1) and make(1) coredump with sig 10. So I thought it > would be a good idea to recompile them with -g -ggdb and > retry. > > Now the strange part. The coredumps are gone. Ok, I did not > use -pipe then. I'll will now try to use -pipe and -g and -ggdb > all together. > > How the fuck this can have a effect on these coredumps ???
The VAX and Windows debuggers are famous for making pointer errors "disappear" when you compile /debug. GDB is better at not doing this, but isn't perfect. Compiling with and without debug will yield different code. -g makes binaries bigger, and prevents some optimizations, even if you aren't telling the compiler to optimize. Does a "strip -g"'ed version of the -g compiled binary have the same problem? Also, an "objdump -p" comparison of the two might be informative; there were a number of problems in Alpha-land when the compiler assumptions changed because of the new binutils. This might be a similar problem to the ld.so problems there, only with the ELF loader code. Without more investigation by you, though, all you are going to get is educated guesses. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
