From: oharboe <oharboe@b42882b7-edfa-0310-969c-e2dbd0fdcd60>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:46:49 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: add "dummy" interface trick to the BUGS reporting suggestions
X-Git-Tag: v0.3.0-rc0~382
X-Git-Url: https://review.openocd.org/gitweb?p=openocd.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=e9b919fbc67a12f8825732f028b33c66e8321e11

add "dummy" interface trick to the BUGS reporting suggestions

git-svn-id: svn://svn.berlios.de/openocd/trunk@2569 b42882b7-edfa-0310-969c-e2dbd0fdcd60
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diff --git a/BUGS b/BUGS
index ceb0356dda..abf8f7ae30 100644
--- a/BUGS
+++ b/BUGS
@@ -34,8 +34,15 @@ in total.
 
 @section bugscrashdump Obtaining Crash Backtraces
 
-If OpenOCD is crashing, you can use GDB to get a trace:@par
+If OpenOCD is crashing, there are two very effective things you can do to
+improve your chances of getting help on the development mailing list. 
+
+Try to reproduce the problem using the dummy JTAG interface to allow other developers to replicate
+your problem robustly and use GDB to get a trace:@par
 @code
+% OPENOCDSRC/configure --enable-dummy ...
+% openocd -f interface/dummy.cfg -f target/xxx.cfg
+=> SEGFAULT
 % gdb --args openocd ....
 (gdb) run
 (gdb) bt