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Date:      Fri, 28 Feb 2003 11:58:00 +1300
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To:        Brian Henning <b1henning@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: gdb
Message-ID:  <20030227225800.GA51331@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
In-Reply-To: <OE68aO1VVmUwInsdwhb0001e813@hotmail.com>
References:  <OE68aO1VVmUwInsdwhb0001e813@hotmail.com>

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On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 04:07:44PM -0600, Brian Henning wrote:
> Hello-
> i am trying to get familiar with gdb so i wrote this code knowing that i will
> get a core dump.
> when i try to run the following command i get some error about not being in the
> proper format.
> what can i do to remedy the problem?
> thanks,
> brian
> 
> >gcc -ggdb gen_core.c
> >./a.out
> >gdb core
> "/home/henninb/core": not in executable format: File format not recognized


That should be:

    gcc -g gen_core.c
    ./a.out
    gdb a.out a.out.core

-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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                                          Experience is a hard teacher
               because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards

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