Re: SIGSEGV Errors

[Adam Fedor]

On Jul 5, 2005, at 1:03 PM, address@hidden wrote:

> Hello!  I'm a new poster to this list.
>
> I'm a member of the Oolite forums at http://aegidian.org/bb, and have 
> been
> trying to help with the creation of a PC version.  It is being done 
> from a
> port of the Mac code to a linux version, and from there to GNUstep on 
> Windows.
>  The code is written in Objective-C. The common platform (or at least 
> the one
> the original porter and me are using) is Windows XP Home/Pro SP2.
>
> It uses SDL libraries for music and graphics.
>
> When we try to compile the game to run, it generates an "Application 
> Error
> (0xc0000005): the application failed to initialize" error message box 
> from
> Windows.
>
> If the game is compiled using debug options, the error is revealled as:
> "Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x00aa1fc0 in malloc ()"

Perhaps it's possible to debug this program with gdb? You can try from 
the shell:

debugapp MyApp.app

and then when it crashes, try 'bt'

Also you can try setting some environment variables to check object 
allocation problems:

export NSZombieEnabled=YES