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Crash while using GDB

Started by Monder Dec 24, 2002 at 3:23 PM 2 replies 250+ views

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Dec 24, 2002 at 3:23 PM

Ok my game crashes when you quit. I wanted to find out why so I fired up GDB and ran the game so I could find out what point it is crashing at. However whenever I debug my game with GDB it crashes in a different place while is just crashes when you quit the game when GDB is not loaded up. I use exactly the same EXE in both cases. So anyone know why having GDB loaded may cause a crash?

Sneftel

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Sneftel

Dec 24, 2002 at 4:41 PM

There are several things that can cause the error to happen in a different place, but in this case that''s academic. Fix the error that happens when you run GDB; chances are, it''ll be a fubared pointer that just happens to mess with different memory when run under GDB and will go away in release once fixed in debug.

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Raduprv

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Raduprv

Dec 24, 2002 at 4:57 PM

Yeah, usually when the program crashes randomly, and GDB can''t show you the line it crashed, it means that you messed with the stack...

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Monder

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Monder

Dec 24, 2002 at 5:57 PM

Well it''s working now. By fixing what caused the crash when you quit the game it ran under GDB correctely. Not quite sure why but anyway thanks for the help

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