Re: GCC/G++ compiler: Error goes away when run through debugger

Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid>
Sun, 27 Mar 2011 20:45:56 -0400

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From: Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 20:45:56 -0400
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
References: 11-03-054
Keywords: C++, debug
Posted-Date: 29 Mar 2011 11:52:20 EDT

On 03/26/2011 03:35 PM, rhoads@cs.rutgers.edu wrote:
> I have an C++ application program that is producing incorrect results
> but the error goes away when I run it through the debugger.


The last time I saw this kind of problem, it was because I did an
out-of-bounds array-access on a stack variable. Specifically, the
program segfaulted if and only if I wasn't under gdb... getting that
stacktrace was fun. :-)


--
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not
tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth


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