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Re: Help - core dumps

On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 03:12:21PM +0530, Rajat Patni wrote:

> What are core dumps, and how can they be debugged?

A core dump is the memory image of a program when it made an illegal
operation, written to the disk.

You can use the core dump to debug a program as follows:

$ gdb program core

then,

(gdb) bt
(gdb) info regs

etc

(gdb) help 

for more info.

	-Arun


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