On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 08:15:34AM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote:

> I don't understand why it should matter. gdb can analyze the stacks of
> programs that were compiled without debugging symbols.

What about frame pointers? I remember checking once, but I don't
recall the outcome. 

It's also possible that it's simply a bug in the code. 

> > If you compiled the application from source (I assume you did, not
> > much point trying to debug it otherwise), the path of least resistance
> > is to debug only the application code and treat its library calls as
> > black boxes. That means figuring out what appliation code calls the
> > functions above (or what gets called by them) and setting a break
> > point there explicitly.
> 
> Unfortunately, this is a GUI program and library calls call callbacks in
> the application. I don't think I can afford to do that.

Why not? put a breakpoint in the callback you want to debug. 
-- 
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