Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Is this a kernel problem? segmentation fault | From | Andreas Schwab <> | Date | 14 Nov 2001 13:35:39 +0100 |
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"Donald Harter" <dharter@lycos.com> writes:
|> I started by debugging this program where I was getting a |> segmentation fault. I used gdb and traced the bug to a call |> instruction. I dissasembled the code and stepped through the |> instructions. The program got a segmentation fault when it |> executed an assembly language call instruction. Using gdb I was |> able to disassemble the instructions at the called address. Why |> can gdb disasemble instructions at a call address and a call to |> that address fails with a segmentation fault?
Perhaps a stack overflow, or stack pointer is pointing to lala land.
Andreas.
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