help debugging segfault with alienarena 7.32

[John Reiser]

>> FWIW, it looks like the backtrace is within the C++ start-up code that
>> runs all non-empty constructors for global C++ variables, which gets
>> called before "main" starts for a C++ program.
>>
>> Does
>>    (gdb) break call_init
>> before
>>    (gdb) run
>> give you a working breakpoint?

> It does, but it doesn't seem to be terribly useful in debugging, as it
> keeps hitting that breakpoint over and over and over.

(gdb) set stop-on-solib-events 1
(gdb) run  <<args...>>
Stopped due to shared library event
(gdb) info shared
 From        To          Syms Read   Shared Object Library
0x00dc2830  0x00ddb27f  Yes         /lib/ld-linux.so.2
0x00ae4410  0x00ae45e8  Yes         a.out
(gdb) c
Continuing.
Stopped due to shared library event
(gdb) info shared
 From        To          Syms Read   Shared Object Library
0x00dc2830  0x00ddb27f  Yes         /lib/ld-linux.so.2
0x00ae4410  0x00ae45e8  Yes         a.out
0x00e5a840  0x00f68c78  Yes         /lib/libc.so.6

   etc.

You might run afoul of this years-old bug:
   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=179072

Post the build, or a pointer to it, plus the needed environment?

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