resolving symbols with FORTIFY_SOURCE?

Pekka Savola pekkas at netcore.fi
Mon Nov 7 01:47:48 UTC 2005


On Sun, 6 Nov 2005, Nicholas Miell wrote:
> IIRC, there was a proposed patch to glibc which would make the backtrace
> functions use DWARF line number information (if available) instead of
> the ELF symbol table, but the glibc maintainer rejected it.
>
> So, put a breakpoint on __chk_fail and then run xsupplicant or else just
> look at the core dump.

Thanks.  (Brown paper bag) due to the message (no mention of core 
dump), I didn't even realize it was dumping core; gdb debugged the 
problem quite nicely.

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