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BUGS
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Curl and libcurl have grown substantially since the beginning. At the time
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of writing (mid March 2001), there are 23000 lines of source code, and by
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the time you read this it has probably grown even more.
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Of course there are lots of bugs left. And lots of misfeatures.
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To help us make curl the stable and solid product we want it to be, we need
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bug reports and bug fixes. If you can't fix a bug yourself and submit a fix
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for it, try to report an as detailed report as possible to the curl mailing
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list to allow one of us to have a go at a solution. You should also post
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your bug/problem at curl's bug tracking system over at
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http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=976
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When reporting a bug, you should include information that will help us
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understand what's wrong, what you expected to happen and how to repeat the
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bad behaviour. You therefore need to supply your operating system's name and
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version number (uname -a under a unix is fine), what version of curl you're
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using (curl -V is fine), what URL you were working with and anything else
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you think matters.
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If curl crashed, causing a core dump (in unix), there is hardly any use to
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send that huge file to anyone of us. Unless we have an exact same system
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setup as you, we can't do much with it. What we instead ask of you is to get
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a stack trace and send that (much smaller) output to us instead!
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The address and how to subscribe to the mailing list is detailed in the
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MANUAL file.
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HOW TO GET A STACK TRACE with a common unix debugger
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====================================================
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First, you must make sure that you compile all sources with -g and that you
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don't 'strip' the final executable.
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Run the program until it bangs.
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Run your debugger on the core file, like '<debugger> curl core'. <debugger>
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should be replaced with the name of your debugger, in most cases that will
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be 'gdb', but 'dbx' and others also occur.
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When the debugger has finished loading the core file and presents you a
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prompt, you can give the compiler instructions. Enter 'where' (without the
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quotes) and press return.
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The list that is presented is the stack trace. If everything worked, it is
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supposed to contain the chain of functions that were called when curl
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crashed.
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