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RE: RE: SIGTRAP problem.
- To: "'Cristiano Ligieri Pereira'" <cpereira at ics dot uci dot edu>
- Subject: RE: [ECOS] RE: SIGTRAP problem.
- From: "Trenton D. Adams" <tadams at extremeeng dot com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 15:24:02 -0600
- Cc: "'eCos Discussion'" <ecos-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Organization: Extreme Engineering
I apologize. That's the last time I ask a question on the list when I
stayed up playing computer games the night before!!!
I'm a complete moron. I was trying to accept a connection on a variable
that I hadn't even initialized.
Anyhow, I suppose sleep would be a good thing right about now.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cristiano Ligieri Pereira [mailto:cpereira@ics.uci.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 3:06 PM
> To: Trenton D. Adams
> Cc: eCos Discussion
> Subject: Re: [ECOS] RE: SIGTRAP problem.
>
>
> I've got the same error message some time ago and was wondering the
same
> thing. Here is what Gary Thomas replied me:
>
> > What's the exact meaning of this [error] message?
> >
> > "Program received signal SIGTRAP, Trace/breakpoint trap.
> > 0x62160 in some_function ()"
> >
> > Is it an error in my application? If not, can I avoid (by doing
some
> > configuration) having it stopping my application.
> >
>
> It definitely is in you application. Since eCos is designed for
> embedded
> use, it makes no sense [normally] to go on if such a thing happens,
as
> this is often quite serious. You'll have to debug your application
and
> fix it, sorry.
>
> > PS: It comes out from the Compaq Ipaq running eCos. I'm using the
> serial
> > port to debug it and see the messages.
>
> I'd guess it means that the program ran away and ended up executing
> garbage.
>
> Basically, the error means that there was some sort of execution
> error - probably an illegal instruction.
>
> First thing would be to use GDB and see if you can get a backtrace.
> Then you can figure out how it got there.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Cristiano Ligieri Pereira - http://www.ics.uci.edu/~cpereira
>