$ gdb /usr/bin/perl GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (5.3post-0.20021129.18rh) Copyright 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu"... (no debugging symbols found)... (gdb) run test.pl Starting program: /usr/bin/perl test.pl [New Thread 1075644768 (LWP 6591)] - reading testfile '/bin/ls' - inserting testfile contents - oid = '16265446' - reading large object Program received signal SIGINT, Interrupt. [Switching to Thread 1075644768 (LWP 6591)] 0xffffe002 in ?? () (gdb) info stack #0 0xffffe002 in ?? () #1 0x404e90f7 in ERR_get_state () from /lib/libcrypto.so.4 #2 0x404e8a79 in ERR_peek_last_error_line_data () from /lib/libcrypto.so.4 #3 0x404e891a in ERR_peek_error () from /lib/libcrypto.so.4 #4 0x4045e35a in SSL_get_error () from /lib/libssl.so.4 #5 0x404216e5 in pqsecure_read () from /usr/lib/libpq.so.3 #6 0x4041d76a in pqReadData () from /usr/lib/libpq.so.3 #7 0x4041c224 in PQfn () from /usr/lib/libpq.so.3 #8 0x4041f773 in lo_read () from /usr/lib/libpq.so.3 #9 0x4014c194 in pg_db_lo_read (dbh=0x19bf, fd=1079323488, buf=0x40552b60 "Ð|N@ }N@0~N@Ð~N@p\177N@\020\200N@à\200N@\200\201N@ \202N@\020\203N@\001", len=1079323488) at dbdimp.c:545 #10 0x40144881 in XS_DBD__Pg__st_bind_param_inout (my_perl=0x804bcb8, cv=0x81b0a48) at Pg.xs:282 #11 0x40400247 in XS_DBI_dispatch (my_perl=0x804bcb8, cv=0x8189158) at DBI.xs:2320 #12 0x400a34e5 in Perl_pp_entersub (my_perl=0x804bcb8) at pp_hot.c:2781 #13 0x40086c9a in Perl_runops_debug (my_perl=0x804bcb8) at dump.c:1414 #14 0x4003a9ab in S_run_body (my_perl=0x804bcb8, oldscope=6591) at perl.c:1705 #15 0x4003a635 in perl_run (my_perl=0x804bcb8) at perl.c:1624 #16 0x080493a3 in main () #17 0x420156a4 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (gdb) info reg eax 0x19bf 6591 ecx 0x0 0 edx 0x40552b60 1079323488 ebx 0x40560010 1079377936 esp 0xbfffe998 0xbfffe998 ebp 0xbfffe9a8 0xbfffe9a8 esi 0xffffffff -1 edi 0x81c6a80 136080000 eip 0xffffe002 0xffffe002 eflags 0x246 582 cs 0x23 35 ss 0x2b 43 ds 0x2b 43 es 0x2b 43 fs 0x0 0 gs 0x33 51 (gdb) q