[mythtv] Automatic backtrace on crash (crashhandler)?

Isaac Richards ijr at case.edu
Fri Feb 25 21:41:12 UTC 2005


On Friday 25 February 2005 04:26 pm, Brad Templeton wrote:
> Optimizations sometimes cause backtrace errors, but most of the time
> they don't, certainly not on the most basic questions like what routine
> did a seg fault occur in.  (More often they get the line wrong within
> a function.)   But in many bugs, just knowing the approximate area is
> enough.  If it's not, you can just recompile without -O.

Well, if it starts inlining stuff, then you can easily be stuck without 
knowing which function it dies in, which happens all the time with problems 
in libavcodec.

Isaac


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