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SubjectRe: Is this a kernel problem? segmentation fault
FromAndreas Schwab <>
Date14 Nov 2001 13:35:39 +0100
"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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