Hi Tom, I didn't get you ... can you please elaborate it.. please .. I am new to gdb .. Regards cnu On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Tom St Denis <tstdenis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Kolpur Srinivasa Chary wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I got segmentation fault when I compiled a program with gcc, so I have >> run the executable file to gdb. >> When I tried running the program through gdb, it displayed the following >> message >> >> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. >> 0x08048ccb in main () >> >> But why is it not telling me the line number at which segfault >> occured? Please help me regarding this issue. >> > > You have to compile with debug information turned on, try adding "-g3" to > your build, also avoid adding strip or "-s" to your build. > > Tom >