Thus spake Markus Illenseer ("MI> ") sometime Today...

MI> > Hmmm, I get a SIGSEGV on this one.
MI>
MI>  How do you know?

Wellllll...

rivendell 540: cat foo.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <locale.h>
int main(void)
{
        const char *foo = "bar";
        printf("Start\n");
        if( NULL == setlocale(LC_ALL, "zh_TW.eucTW") )
        {
                printf("Start1\n");
                /* yes, I know, the 2nd argument should not be NULL */
                printf("error! locale is: %s\n", setlocale(LC_ALL, NULL));
        }
        else
        {
                printf("Start2\n");
                printf("OK %s\n", foo);
        }
        printf("End\n");
}
rivendell 541: cc foo.c -o foo
rivendell 542: ./foo
Start
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
rivendell 543:

I'd say that's a pretty good indication.

MI> > A gdb trace gets nothing?  What if you single-step through, where's it
MI> > get lost?
MI>
MI>  Nothing -- unless I should do more than a simple "run". How do I do
MI> this single-step trace?

rivendell 543: cc -g foo.c -o foo
rivendell 544: gdb foo
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This GDB was configured as "i386--netbsdelf"...
(gdb) b main
Breakpoint 1 at 0x804881c: file foo.c, line 5.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /tmp/foo

Breakpoint 1, main () at foo.c:5
5               const char *foo = "bar";
(gdb) s
6               printf("Start\n");
(gdb) s
Start
7               if( NULL == setlocale(LC_ALL, "zh_TW.eucTW") )
(gdb) s

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x480dea04 in vfprintf_unlocked () from /usr/lib/libc.so.12
(gdb)

MI> Markus Illenseer


[and you don't even have to type 's' after the first time -- just hit
return, and it will repeat the last command you gave it.]

				--*greywolf;
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