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Subjecthow do I debug core files?
DateFri, 3 May 1996 10:40:15 PDT
From"Marty Leisner" <>
I'm running:
	gdb 4.16
	linux 1.3.94

I never got it working, I heard in the path it was problems...

Now I decided I need to...

How do I examine core files?
 leisner@thingy; gdb --version
GDB 4.16 (i586-unknown-linux), Copyright 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
: leisner@thingy; ulimit -c
unlimited
: leisner@thingy; file core
core: ELF 32-bit LSB core file i386 (386 and up) Version 1
: leisner@thingy; ls -l mkbuiltins 
-rwxr-xr-x   1 leisner  users      116262 May  3 13:31 mkbuiltins*
: leisner@thingy; file mkbuiltins 
mkbuiltins: ELF 32-bit LSB executable i386 (386 and up) Version 1
: leisner@thingy; gdb mkbuiltins core
GDB is free software and you are welcome to 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.
GDB 4.16 (i586-unknown-linux), Copyright 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc...
Couldn't fetch registers from core file: File in wrong format
Couldn't fetch registers from core file: File in wrong format
#0  0x0 in ?? ()
(gdb) 

marty		leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com   
Member of the League for Programming Freedom (http://www.lpf.org)
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
        Arthur C. Clarke, The Lost Worlds of 2001


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