Re: New Linux Annoyances Outline

[email protected] (Rob Ristroph) 20 Oct 2003 23:21:25 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.linux.usability.annoyances
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>>>>> "Dee-Ann" == Dee-Ann LeBlanc <[email protected]> writes:
Dee-Ann> 
Dee-Ann> We know chapter 3 (development) is really sketchy and needs
Dee-Ann> expanding

In addition to gdb, mention valgrind.  Suggest that if a runtime
failure is mysterious, particularly something such as a segfault
inside a call to malloc() or new, then running valgrind and cleaning
up the errors that happened before the actual crash may save you.

--Rob