From: ashtray@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (John Newnham) Subject: [BUG?] Why does gdb affect the behaviour of many errors? Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 05:11:10 GMT
Subject says it all. I noticed that Rick, among others, seems to accept
this with equanimity. But surely an error should (generally, races excluded)
occur wether the process is running under a debugger or normally?
One example I had recently was that mail was writing to string constants
(tsk, tsk), and therefore seg-faulting. But I could not replicate the error
with gdb, so I was left with inspecting the code and guessing (or reading the
manual and realising that -Wall does not imply -Wwrite-strings. *sigh).
Comments? Is this behaviour of gdb linux-specific, or should I be posting in
a different GNUsgroup?
ashtray@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
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