[maemo-developers] how to get crash stack trace in Maemo 2.2 (Nokia 770)

[From: Han]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:40 AM, Alexandre Fayolle
<alexandre.fayolle at logilab.fr> wrote:
> On Tuesday 31 August 2010 09:07:01 Han wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I am using Maemo 2.2 to develop some programs for Nokia 770. Things
>> run pretty well except sometime my program would crash for unknown
>> reason. Normally I start the program from x terminal, and  it would
>> crash with only message "Killed".
>>
>> I am wondering if possible to get a stack trace when the program
>> crashes?  so that I can find out where the crash happened in the code.
>
> This looks like the executable was killed by the OS. This can happen on Linux
> because of memory exhaustion (Out Of Memory killer: see e.g. http://linux-
> mm.org/OOM_Killer for more information on that). I'd advise monitoring memory
> consumption of your program.
>
> You could also use strace to check what's happening in your program and what
> signal is received which causes termination.

Thanks.  Looks like "strace" is not available in 770 Application
Manager.  Do folks compile their own to run on 770?
Han

>
> The OOM Killer uses SIGTERM, which your program can intercept if its memory
> consumption is not a bug.
>
>
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