Re: debugging & gnibbles ai

[Sjoerd Langkemper <sjoerd-games linuxonly nl>]

Luke Page wrote:
> I have created a gnibbles ai.. it still has a long way to go.. e.g. if
> you get a diamond the ai gets very confused and it ignores all
> cherry's and icecreams.
>
> The main problem is that it sometimes crashes at a certain point and
> it would help me if I knew what function it was in... I output
> g_printf's but I think they output slower than the program and then
> stop when it crashes.
>
> Being new to linux programming, can anyone reccomend any debugging
> tools that could be used with this application?

You probably want to use GDB, the GNU debugger, which will automatically 
stop when a segfault occurs. You can then print a backtrace, which lists 
the functions the program is in.

http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/gdb.html

Sjoerd