help debugging segfault with alienarena 7.32

David Malcolm dmalcolm at redhat.com
Tue Nov 3 17:16:18 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 11:45 -0500, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> I need to rebuild alienarena for all targets due to a security issue, so
> I decided to update to 7.32, but unfortunately, the 7.32 build segfaults
> immediately on Fedora 12 (x86_64), and gdb isn't much help (gdb output
> is at the bottom).

FWIW, it looks like the backtrace is within the C++ start-up code that
runs all non-empty constructors for global C++ variables, which gets
called before "main" starts for a C++ program.

Does
  (gdb) break call_init
before
  (gdb) run
give you a working breakpoint?

[snip]

Hope this is helpful
Dave





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