[vox-tech] gdb segfaults when printing long double complex variables

Bill Broadley bill at cse.ucdavis.edu
Thu Jun 10 08:58:17 PDT 2004


>    (gdb) break 18
>    Breakpoint 1 at 0x8048436: file blah.c, line 18.
>    (gdb) run
>    Starting program: /home/p/a.out 
>    5.000000 + 2.000000i
>    5.000000 + 2.000000i
>    5.000000 + 2.000000i
> 
>    Breakpoint 1, main () at blah.c:19
>    19              return 0;
>    (gdb) p a
>    $1 = 5 + 2 * I
>    (gdb) p b
>    $2 = 5 + 2 * I
>    (gdb) p c
>    Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> 
> This is very reproducible, unfortunately.  This bug showed up at the
> worst possible moment...

Get a real machine, chuckle, it works on an opteron.  Looks like a bug,
I'd file a bug report.  Especially since you have such a small and simple
test case.

-- 
Bill Broadley
Computational Science and Engineering
UC Davis


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