Ethereal-users: [ethereal-users] Re: compilation questions and possible bug...

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From: sen_ml@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 10:37:13 +0900
At around Wed, 16 Dec 1998 11:07:54 -0800 (PST),
 guy@xxxxxxxxxx (Guy Harris) may have mentioned:

> > Try to load it with name resolving disabled (ethereal -n), this would
> > decrease the amount of memory (and time) needed.
> 
> If running out of memory is causing Ethereal to crash, perhaps we're
> allocating memory and not checking whether the memory allocator returns
> NULL - a stack trace from one of the crashes might help here (as might
> checking the code to make sure it's not doing that...).

i would happy to help -- unfortunately, i don't know how to carry out the
necessary steps to provide a stack trace from one of the crashes.
my guess would be to run gdb on the core file and give it some command...
am i warm?  any pointers or instructions would be appreciated :-)