One of perl programs is failing with segementation fault.Since it was not reproducible , i investigated the core file. The output of the core file is as follows 
#0  0xfedd49f2 in t_splay () from /lib/libc.so.1
(gdb) backtrace
#0  0xfedd49f2 in t_splay () from /lib/libc.so.1
#1  0xfedd48d0 in t_delete () from /lib/libc.so.1
#2  0xfedd4629 in realfree () from /lib/libc.so.1
#3  0xfedd4c13 in cleanfree () from /lib/libc.so.1
#4  0xfedd412f in _malloc_unlocked () from /lib/libc.so.1
#5  0xfedd4058 in malloc () from /lib/libc.so.1
#6  0x080bf003 in Perl_safesysmalloc ()
#7  0x080dbe4c in Perl_pp_entersub ()
#8  0x00000005 in ?? ()

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Could some one tell me how to increase the frame depth of backtrace command or could send me a link for more info for gdb. My OS Distribution is Solaris 10 8/07 s10x_u4wos_12b X86 Thanks

In reply to Understanding the segmentation fault output generated using gdb by Anonymous Monk

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