Neil Booth (NeilB@earthling.net) wrote: > I have found a bug in some software that causes it to segfault. > However, there is no core file to use with gdb. Why is a core file > not generated / how do I force one? Programs can prevent themselves from dumping core -- if they do, then there's nothing you can do to force them. It's better to run the application *inside* gdb -- then if it segfaults, you can do "bt" or "where" to get a stack trace, and mail it off to whoever wants to see it (the program's maintainer, etc.). $ gdb foo ... (gdb) run arg1 arg2 ... ... seg fault ... (gdb) bt -- Greg Wooledge | Distributed.NET http://www.distributed.net/ wooledge@kellnet.com | because a CPU is a terrible thing to waste. http://www.kellnet.com/wooledge/ |
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