From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 18 20:32:17 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 680B237B401 for ; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 20:32:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from pd4mo1so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 758A043ED8 for ; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 20:32:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cyschow@shaw.ca) Received: from pd2mr4so.prod.shaw.ca (pd2mr4so-ser.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.107]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H8Y00JO21XLX1@l-daemon> for questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 21:32:09 -0700 (MST) Received: from pn2ml10so.prod.shaw.ca (pn2ml10so-qfe0.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.121.80]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H8Y0071D1XLPQ@l-daemon> for questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 21:32:09 -0700 (MST) Received: from mail.peyto.ca (h68-147-174-254.cg.shawcable.net [68.147.174.254]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with SMTP id <0H8Y006J01XLIW@l-daemon> for questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 21:32:09 -0700 (MST) Received: (qmail 13124 invoked from network); Sun, 19 Jan 2003 04:37:49 +0000 Received: from celeron.peyto.ca (HELO celeron) (192.168.1.6) by homeserver.peyto.ca with SMTP; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 04:37:49 +0000 Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 21:37:34 -0700 From: Samuel Chow Subject: Re: How to read core dump To: Doug Poland Cc: questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <002a01c2bf74$7c51c380$0601a8c0@celeron> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4920.2300 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4920.2300 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-priority: Normal References: <20030119013133.GA5520@polands.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Poland" > After doc perusal and googling, I haven't found out how to read a core > dump. I suppose if I knew how to read them I could "easily" determine > where the program died. Is this an accurate statement? Is there > another way to find out why a program dumps core? gdb, the system debugger, can read the core file. However, unless your program is compiled with debug information, it is not very useful. --- Samuel Chow cyschow@shaw.ca Segmentation Fault (core dumped) This message is displayed using recycled electrons. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message