Re: core issues

[Dave Reed <dreed capital edu>]

> Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 14:40:25 -0700
> From: Lee Johnson <lee imyourhandiman com>
> 
> okay i understand that to get to bottom of core issues ( the application
> causing grief? ) i need to focus on core file
> and trace to application and write author blah blah....okay fine but how
> do i read the darn  core file? :)
> 
> all i get is" ELF"

file core

should tell you want application created the core file.

Then do:

gdb the-app-that-created-core-file core

followed by:
bt


This will produce a backtrace (the functions that had been called)
when the program crashed.  This along with what you are doing at the
time of the crash should help the author find the problem.  This
assumes the program was compiled with the -g flag and has not been
stripped of the debugging symbols.

HTH,
Dave