On 28 Sep 2003, Olaf Wagner wrote:
> On several systems, including LINUXLIBC6, FreeBSDX, DS3100,
> the garbage collector uses memory protection to implement incremental
> and generational collections. SIGSEGV is the usual reaction of
> a Unix system to a write request to a protected page. This is
> caught deep in the Modula-3 runtime. So in order to debug a
> program in gdb or m3gdb, you should always add the command line
> argument @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
which disables the virtual memory protection.
> This should be a FAQ, I think.
I tend not to do this as I imagine a program could behave differently when
given this option. I instead issue
handle SIGSEGV nostop noprint
to gdb/m3gdb.
Ed.
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