catchsegv(1)

catchsegv1

Catch segmentation faults in programs

Usage

catchsegv program [args]

Overview

Used to debug segmentation faults in programs. The output is the content of registers, plus a backtrace. Basically you call your program and its arguments as the arguments to catchsegv.

Releases

10 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 3.0
  2. 3.1
  3. 4.0
  4. 5.0
  5. 6.0–9
  6. 10–11

Author

catchsegv was written by Ulrich Drepper for the GNU C Library

This man page was written by Ben Collins <[email protected]> for the Debian GNU/Linux system.

From libc-bin 2.31-13+deb11u11 in Debian 11 (Bullseye). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.