[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] automatic gdb attaching

[Joey Parrish]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 07:19:31PM +0200, Alexander Strasser wrote:
> D Richard Felker III wrote ( On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 01:09:39PM -0400 ):
> > On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 06:44:51PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > > And just to make sure that you understand the purpose of this patch:
> > > There are a few crashes that aren't reproducible, so unless maybe you
> > 
> > these indicate faulty hardware, right?
> > or how are they non-reproducible? i don't follow.
> 
> I think there are some crashes that depend on a big amount of things,
> sometimes including the data to be played. So they are fairly difficult
> to reproduce though mostly possible. One could also imagine some
> data that is not properly initialized and thus containing random garbage.
> So if they are not many, the potential for them to exist is there IMHO.

Remember also subtle bugs in the input system.  If reproduction requires
a long, obscure sequence of keystrokes...

--Joey

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