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- From: ashtray@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (John Newnham)
- Subject: [BUG?] Why does gdb affect the behaviour of many errors?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.051110.6558@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
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- Organization: you have got to be kidding!
- References: <1993Jan4.103822.13815@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <1993Jan4.202558.16223@unislc.uucp> <JRS.93Jan4201620@lepton.world.std.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 05:11:10 GMT
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- Subject says it all. I noticed that Rick, among others, seems to accept
- this with equanimity. But surely an error should (generally, races excluded)
- occur wether the process is running under a debugger or normally?
- One example I had recently was that mail was writing to string constants
- (tsk, tsk), and therefore seg-faulting. But I could not replicate the error
- with gdb, so I was left with inspecting the code and guessing (or reading the
- manual and realising that -Wall does not imply -Wwrite-strings. *sigh).
-
- Comments? Is this behaviour of gdb linux-specific, or should I be posting in
- a different GNUsgroup?
-
- ashtray@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
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- Vogt's commentary on the theory of Morphic Resonance:
- There is no god! The universe just got into bad habits. (Marcus Voght)
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