Re: [Help-smalltalk] SEGF in gst_initialize

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 10/31/2009 10:19 PM, Roland Plüss wrote:
> Trying to figure out why something doesn't work and for this I did gdb
> on the code. I then noticed a SEGF trigged only inside GDB. Tracing it
> down I ended up at the gst initialization code somehow causing a SEGF.
> The code is the following:
>
> gst_initialize( NULL, NULL, GST_NO_TTY );
>
> Calling this line causes SEGF only in gdb. Anything wrong here? I used
> NULL for image and kernel string since in the doc there has been no
> indication at all what has to go there if anything at all.

NULL is fine.

However gst traps SEGVs for its own generational GC.  You can use 
"handle SIGSEGV noprint" at the beginning of your gdb session, or place 
it in .gdbinit.

Real SEGVs become SIGABRT.

Paolo