segfaults

[Ellery Newcomer]

On 02/22/2010 08:41 PM, Jesse Phillips wrote:
> Ellery Newcomer wrote:
>
>> Is there any decent way to figure out where segfaults are coming from?
>>
>> e.g. 200k lines of bad code converted from java
>>
>> I tried gdb, and it didn't seem to work too well.
>>
>> Die: DW_TAG_type_unit (abbrev 3, offset 0x6d)
>>     parent at offset: 0xb
>>     has children: FALSE
>>     attributes:
>>       DW_AT_byte_size (DW_FORM_data1) constant: 8
>> Dwarf Error: Missing children for type unit [in module /home/ellery/dxl.exe]
>> Missing separate debuginfos, use: debuginfo-install glibc-2.11.1-1.i686
>>
>>
>> And I'm not proficient with gdb.
>>
>> dmd 1.056 / tango .99999 or whatever
>>
>> fedora linux
>
> I never tried getting a core dump with D, but you should be able to get
> one by enabling them[1]. And then you can use GDB[2]. But as implied
> earlier I don't know how well it will work.
>
> 1. http://en.linuxreviews.org/HOWTO_enable_core-dumps
> 2.
> http://www.unix.com/unix-advanced-expert-users/19128-how-do-core-dump-analysis.html

No good. Gives the same message.