[mythtv-users] Howto for using of Backtraces...

[Jochen Kühner]

can i use dd also to open backtraces and find the position where it 
crashed??

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robin Gilks" <g8ecj at gilks.org>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 2:38 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Howto for using of Backtraces...



> i know that gdb generate backtraces...
> and i know how this works.
>
> i want to know how i use the information in the backtraces...

Build from source with debug enabled so that the executables have symbols,
run with gdb and any backtrace will have source code references. Use a gui
wrapper such as ddd and you can jump directly to the code source (assuming
it is accessable from the debug environment).

Note that a backtrace only tells you how you got to where you are, not why!!

-- 
Robin Gilks


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