On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 04:26:11PM -0500, Jason Gauthier wrote: > > How, pray tell, did you find out the exact line the mud's > > hanging on? GDB's > > good, but as far as I know it's not that good.. A backtrace > > will get you > > into the general area of where your mud went bad, but still. > > Backtraces are good for core dumps, but not as useful when the mud is > actually running. > Since his mud is running he should step through it.
It actually is, specially if you want to know how it ended up in a certain function (i.e. the first function where it broke into in) > I would highly recommend tracing the program with GDB to find out where your > 'hang' is. That's one thing for sure :-) Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: ------------------+ http://www.FatalDimensions.org/

