Seg fault

Fri Sep 15 06:45:00 GMT 2000

mark kimsal writes:
 > 
 > 
 > mark kimsal wrote:
 > 
 > > Tom Tromey wrote:
 > >
 > > > >>>>> "mark" == mark kimsal <chugadie.geo@yahoo.com> writes:
 > > >
 > > > mark> Is there anyway to get more information about the seg fault?
 > > >
 > > > Yes, use the debugger.
 > > >
 > > > gdb <your-app>
 > > > run
 > > > ... seg fault
 > > > bt
 > >
 > > hmm... gdb eh? I'll try it
 > >
 > > > This will give you a stack trace. That might help. You can also poke
 > > > around and find out why the crash occurred by printing local
 > > > variables, looking at the source, etc.
 > >
 > 
 > GDB didn't help very much
I don't understand this. What do you mean? Did gdb not tell you
where the SEGV happened?
 > , so i started cutting out code until it worked. I found that it
 > wasn't any amount of SDL or C coding that provided the seg fault,
 > it was a parameter sent to the linker. The -lpthreads sent to the
 > linker caused a seg fault. Now I would like to know what this flag
 > does, and if removing it will introduce any roadblocks for normal
 > development? The lpthreads flag was a standard flag for gcc from
 > the SDL library.
pthreads is the posix thread libarary, and you need it if you use Java
threads.
Andrew.