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

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