From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1H5mr1-0000Ba-Vd for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 13 Jan 2007 17:39:44 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l0DHbl20011269; Sat, 13 Jan 2007 17:37:47 GMT Received: from ms-smtp-04.southeast.rr.com (ms-smtp-04.southeast.rr.com [24.25.9.103]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0DHTDbF005121 for ; Sat, 13 Jan 2007 17:29:14 GMT Received: from booty.electronsweatshop.com (cpe-071-065-217-111.nc.res.rr.com [71.65.217.111]) by ms-smtp-04.southeast.rr.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l0DHTB2I027320 for ; Sat, 13 Jan 2007 12:29:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from booty.electronsweatshop.com (booty.electronsweatshop.com [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by booty.electronsweatshop.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9D4537CC3 for ; Sat, 13 Jan 2007 12:29:11 -0500 (EST) From: Randy Barlow Organization: electronsweatshop.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Is there a gcc-4.1.1 alternative? Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 12:29:09 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <1168699369.14521.15.camel@camille.espersunited.com> In-Reply-To: <1168699369.14521.15.camel@camille.espersunited.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200701131229.09898.randy@electronsweatshop.com> X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-Archives-Salt: 93019cde-56c4-4f44-9d80-d595805e31cc X-Archives-Hash: 2e5c8e78efd60db8e5ea384ad45d309a On Saturday 13 January 2007 09:42, Michael Sullivan wrote: > This strace doesn't help me much. What does "attached" mean, anyway? I don't know what the problem is, but I can tell you that strace "attaches" to a process meaning that it begins to watch the process to see what system calls it is making. If the process doesn't make any system calls, then you won't see anything with strace. For example, #define BIG_NUMBER 4e15 main () { long x; for(int i=0; i