Messages in this thread |  | | From | Jared Mauch <> | Subject | Re: magic file entry to understand core dumps | Date | Wed, 17 Jul 1996 22:49:10 -0400 (EDT) |
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Works for me:
lunar:~> make test cc test.c -o test ./test lunar:~> ./test Floating exception (core dumped) lunar:~> file core core: ELF 32-bit LSB core file i386 (386 and up) Version 1 lunar:~> cat test.c main() { printf("%d\n", 0/0); } lunar:~>
Marty Leisner graced my mailbox with this long sought knowledge: > > Does anyone have a magic line to correctly decode a linux elf > core dump? > > I looked in gdb but got pretty confused...(but it seems to understand > the core file). > > It would be worthwhile to write a cheezy program to print the command > name of the core dump if file can't do it... > > 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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