[CS-FSLUG] OT: C program crashes
David Aikema
david at aikema.net
Sat Feb 11 15:12:16 CST 2006
On 2/9/06, Frank Bax <fbax at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> I've got some C source code that sometimes crashes with a SIG11, which I
> believe to be a seg fault. The program I'm playing with was a free one I
> got on the web and runs as cgi script. It randomly fails with Sig 11
> errors. Very early in main.c, I see call to setsigs():
... this is just setting things up so that the signal_catchint
function will be called to process any signals. It shouldn't be your
cause - nor should the signal_catchint function.
> What could I add/modify to get some clue as to where the real fault is in
> the software?
You could try using a tool like Valgrid - http://valgrind.org/. It
can work well for hunting down annoying memory allocation errors.
Dave
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