[Xastir] Seg faults

[Curt, WE7U]

On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Tom Russo wrote:

> IMHO, the debugging output is almost useless for most segfault hunting,
> as it's generally been the case that the debugging output that's there was
> put there to find bugs in code that's already been fixed.  New segfaults
> have almost invariably required either debugger work or new debugging
> printfs.  Using that output will probably result in more red herrings than
> real clues.

Can't really argue with that, other than to say that every once in a
while they'll show us something obvious.  Not often, but due to the
simplicity of this option compared to learning how to use a
debugger, it's sometimes worth trying for the newer Linux user.

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