Nedd advice on What to do for segfault on ARM

[Aditya Vaidya]

After compiling, what do you do to check where it segfaults? I have a
Raspberry Pi with X11 installed, so it shouldn't be a problem to test it
for me if I cross-compile it correctly.

Sincerely,
kroq-gar78


On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Emmanuel Kasper <emmanuel at libera.cc> wrote:

> Am 2012-09-04 19:11, schrieb Emmet Hikory:
>
>  Emmanuel Kasper wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Jordi
>>> I am stuck with mame segfaulting on armhf/armel (see
>>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-**bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=679005<http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=679005>
>>> )
>>> Althoug I manage to reproduce the bug in an emalutaed raspberry pi,
>>> I don't have the ressources to fix the bug.
>>> What should can I do ?
>>>
>>> I would like to try compling mame with -O0 (without any optimization
>>> at all), but I don't have access to the hardware ressources.
>>> It is possible to reaffect the bug to some arm specific folks in Debian ?
>>>
>>
>>      I'd be happy to run that compilation, but my armel machine is
>> headless,
>> so I can only run CLI tests: if you'd be able to give me instructions or a
>> short script that would exercise the segfault (and not fail in another way
>> because of the lack of video hardware), I can probably get a trace.
>>
>>      Alternately, if compilation/testing in an Ubuntu Precise environment
>> would be acceptable, I have such an armhf device with video (and using
>> the same processor as the original reporter), and could test there.
>>
>>
> Hello Emmet
>
> Thank your for your help, I am 90 % sure that the bug will occur on Ubuntu
> on well.
> First step would be to be to build a mame 0.146-2 package on your box
> using the source package at http://packages.debian.org/**sid/mame<http://packages.debian.org/sid/mame>
> ( hint: first step is dget -x http://ftp.de.debian.org/**
> debian/pool/non-free/m/mame/**mame_0.146-2.dsc<http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/m/mame/mame_0.146-2.dsc>)
>
> you need at 2GB in ram + swap to build mame
>
> thanks
>
> manu
>
>
>
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