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[ts-7000] Re: Segmentation Fault - I blame it on gcc's linker

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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: Segmentation Fault - I blame it on gcc's linker
From: "Ed" <>
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 14:59:07 -0000
--- In  Andrew Taylor <> wrote:
>
> A bit more debugging advice. Its better to run "gcc -O -Wall".  This
> detects (some) use of uninitalized local variables which "gcc -Wall"
> does not - I assume because some flow analysis is not done without -O.
> 
> Even better is to follow Don Carr's advice and use stubs for
> hardware-specific code and compile and test on x86 where you can use
> valgrind and gcc -fmudflap to pick useful classes of bugs automatically.
> 
> Andrew
>

Andrew,

(See my reply to Mark S from earlier today)
I tried compiling the sample I posted for Mark with the -O switch.  It
compiled without giving me an error, but the program actually RUNS
without crashing!  ANY of the "-O" switches seem to fix it!

Thanks for the tip.
Ed



 
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