What is the difference between a normal Segmentation Fault error and this
one?
Fatal signal: Segmentation Fault (SDL Parachute Deployed)
What is “SDL parachute”? It can help me find where my errors are?
Thanks for any explanation…
Enzo.
What is the difference between a normal Segmentation Fault error and this
one?Fatal signal: Segmentation Fault (SDL Parachute Deployed)What is “SDL parachute”? It can help me find where my errors are?
Your program (or the backend, or whatever) had a segfault, but the SDL
installs the “SDL parachute” as a signal handler for various fatal
signals, including SEGV (not necessarily fatal, but I’m guessing that the
SDL front end doesn’t have enough info to handle it in a clean way.)
If you need the normal signal behavior (ie, you want a core dump for
debugging purposes), you can do what I do: edit src/SDL_fatal.c, comment
out the SEGV in the fatal_signals array in SDL_InstallParachute, and
recompile.On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Enzo wrote:
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Your program (or the backend, or whatever) had a segfault, but the SDL
installs the “SDL parachute” as a signal handler for various fatal
signals, including SEGV (not necessarily fatal, but I’m guessing that the
SDL front end doesn’t have enough info to handle it in a clean way.)
If you need the normal signal behavior (ie, you want a core dump for
debugging purposes), you can do what I do: edit src/SDL_fatal.c, comment
out the SEGV in the fatal_signals array in SDL_InstallParachute, and
recompile.
It’s actually even easier than that. After you call SDL_Init(), just
do: signal(SIGSEGV, SIG_DFL);
If you set your own signal handler for SIGSEGV, SDL will respect it,
and not install it’s own.
BTW, as far as I know, core files are useless for debugging multi-threaded
programs. Also, if you are running your program in a dangerous mode, i.e.
directly accessing the hardware under DGA or some such, then the default
behavior of dumping core and exiting will lock up your console.
When debugging these kinds of applications, I usually just telnet in from
another box and run the program under gdb.
Good luck!
-Sam Lantinga (slouken at devolution.com)
Lead Programmer, Loki Entertainment Software–
“Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature”
– Rich Kulawiec
Hi,
Sorry to be a bother. I didn’t get any mail from the list for about 8 days,
so I’m checking if it’s still working.
Mark--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Me either. I was starting to think everyone moved to a newsgroup without
notifying the list. But then I remembered school just started and some
big game development projects are coming in for the home stretch 
- neil
Mark Elliott wrote:>
Hi,
Sorry to be a bother. I didn’t get any mail from the list for about 8 days,
so I’m checking if it’s still working.Mark
Dr Mark Elliott Tel. (+44)(0)1222 874686
Department of Chemistry Fax. (+44)(0)1222 874030
Cardiff University
PO Box 912
Cardiff CF10 3TB
UK emailhttp://www.cf.ac.uk/uwcc/chemy/ (Departmental homepage)
http://www.cf.ac.uk/uwc/chemy/staff/elliott.html (Personal homepage)
Actually, everyone did move to a newsgroup, but the list was notified.
Check out www.lokigames.com for more info.
MarcusOn Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Neil Oryan Erdman wrote:
Me either. I was starting to think everyone moved to a newsgroup without
notifying the list. But then I remembered school just started and some
big game development projects are coming in for the home stretch
- neil
Mark Elliott wrote:
Hi,
Sorry to be a bother. I didn’t get any mail from the list for about 8 days,
so I’m checking if it’s still working.Mark
Dr Mark Elliott Tel. (+44)(0)1222 874686
Department of Chemistry Fax. (+44)(0)1222 874030
Cardiff University
PO Box 912
Cardiff CF10 3TB
UK emailhttp://www.cf.ac.uk/uwcc/chemy/ (Departmental homepage)
http://www.cf.ac.uk/uwc/chemy/staff/elliott.html (Personal homepage)
Actually, the last post I have with any mention to the newsgroup is this
from 09/19:******
Ok, I saw the SDL mailing list subscription messages for the newserver,
so any message sent to the mailing list ends up on the newsserver.
right? Does any message sent to the newserver also go the mailing list?
Yup. I’ll announce it officially on Monday. 
Shouldn’t there be some message on the
http://www.devolution.com/~slouken/SDL/ site? Oh, well. Thanks for the
info.
- neil
“M. R. Brown” wrote:
Actually, everyone did move to a newsgroup, but the list was notified.
Check out www.lokigames.com for more info.Marcus
On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Neil Oryan Erdman wrote:
Me either. I was starting to think everyone moved to a newsgroup without
notifying the list. But then I remembered school just started and some
big game development projects are coming in for the home stretch
- neil
Mark Elliott wrote:
Hi,
Sorry to be a bother. I didn’t get any mail from the list for about 8 days,
so I’m checking if it’s still working.Mark
Dr Mark Elliott Tel. (+44)(0)1222 874686
Department of Chemistry Fax. (+44)(0)1222 874030
Cardiff University
PO Box 912
Cardiff CF10 3TB
UK emailhttp://www.cf.ac.uk/uwcc/chemy/ (Departmental homepage)
http://www.cf.ac.uk/uwc/chemy/staff/elliott.html (Personal homepage)
I thought the list and newgroup were cross sending messages between each
other so we didn’t have to use the newsgroup if we didn’t want to.On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, M. R. Brown wrote:
Actually, everyone did move to a newsgroup, but the list was notified.
Check out www.lokigames.com for more info.Marcus
On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Neil Oryan Erdman wrote:
Me either. I was starting to think everyone moved to a newsgroup without
notifying the list. But then I remembered school just started and some
big game development projects are coming in for the home stretch
- neil
Mark Elliott wrote:
Hi,
Sorry to be a bother. I didn’t get any mail from the list for about 8 days,
so I’m checking if it’s still working.Mark
Dr Mark Elliott Tel. (+44)(0)1222 874686
Department of Chemistry Fax. (+44)(0)1222 874030
Cardiff University
PO Box 912
Cardiff CF10 3TB
UK emailhttp://www.cf.ac.uk/uwcc/chemy/ (Departmental homepage)
http://www.cf.ac.uk/uwc/chemy/staff/elliott.html (Personal homepage)
Mark Elliott wrote:
Hi,
Sorry to be a bother. I didn’t get any mail from the list for about 8 days,
so I’m checking if it’s still working.Mark
Dr Mark Elliott Tel. (+44)(0)1222 874686
Department of Chemistry Fax. (+44)(0)1222 874030
Cardiff University
PO Box 912
Cardiff CF10 3TB
UK emailhttp://www.cf.ac.uk/uwcc/chemy/ (Departmental homepage)
http://www.cf.ac.uk/uwc/chemy/staff/elliott.html (Personal homepage)
Hi,
I’ve been getting mail from this list over the past few days. It’s most
always synced up with the newsgroup too.
Mike
“M. R. Brown” wrote:
Actually, everyone did move to a newsgroup, but the list was notified.
Check out www.lokigames.com for more info.
which newsgroup is it ?
ew.-------------------------------------------
lets go to another world … oberon
Are the messeges posted to the newsgroup sent to the mailing list also?
At 03:06 PM 10/2/99 +0000, you wrote:
“M. R. Brown” wrote:
Actually, everyone did move to a newsgroup, but the list was notified.
Check out www.lokigames.com for more info.
which newsgroup is it ?ew.
lets go to another world … oberon
-Mongoose WPI student majoring in Computer Science
This messge sent from Windoze… ugh.
They are suppost to be.
-fjr
Garrett Banuk wrote:>
Are the messeges posted to the newsgroup sent to the mailing list also?
At 03:06 PM 10/2/99 +0000, you wrote:
“M. R. Brown” wrote:
Actually, everyone did move to a newsgroup, but the list was notified.
Check out www.lokigames.com for more info.
which newsgroup is it ?ew.
lets go to another world … oberon
-Mongoose WPI student majoring in Computer Science
This messge sent from Windoze… ugh.
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