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[gtk-list] Re: Dumping core on SIGSEGV

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (beach@ataman.com)
Fri Oct 16 14:30:53 1998

Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 12:27:30 -0600
From: beach@ataman.com
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.05.9810161351350.5027-100000@xi>; from Jason A. Pfeil on Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 01:52:22PM -0400
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On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 01:52:22PM -0400, Jason A. Pfeil wrote:
> Ummm...if gtk DOESN'T catch SIGSEGV, then the core IS dumped.  What seems
> to be the problem here?  Signals are up to the application to catch
> anyway.
> 
> --Jason
> 
> On Fri, 16 Oct 1998 beach@ataman.com wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Why doesn't Gtk catch SIGSEGV instead of allowing a core dump?  This
> > is making it difficult to use in development at times (e.g. no
> > coredump files to work with means nothing to give to the debugger.)

Please excuse my horribly phrased question.  What I meant to say was:

Why *does* Gtk catch SIGSEGV.  I'd like it to coredump so that I can
use the debugger.  What should I do?

Dave

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David J. C. Beach <beach@ataman.com>
Ataman Software, Inc.

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