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From: corrigan@net1.ucsd.edu (Mike Corrigan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Extra data segments on HP-UX :-)
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Date: 19 Jul 89 22:28:49 GMT
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In article <1340061@hpclisp.HP.COM> chip@hpclisp.HP.COM (Chip Chapin) writes:
>>/ tml@hemuli.atk.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist) /  5:37 am  Jul 17, 1989 /
>>When trying a Pascal compilation on a hp9000s800 which is low on swap
>>space, I get this:
>>
>>**** EXTRA DATA SEGMENT ERROR ****
>> ...
>>                        ERROR MESSAGES IN ALL CAPS.  This `extra data
>>segment' message gives it away...

>True... We'll have to change the message to "bus error, core dumped". <====

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 Jeez Chip, don't change the kernel just so the pascal compiler 
can put out lower case error mesages (low swap isn't usually a bus error
but more like a kernel mem management error message I would guess)
While we are on the subject of core dumps, I was really bummed 
yesterday when I had a core dump in / and I ran xdb with the name
of the program that I thought had created the core and xdb dumped
core on the existing core dump which was the only copy I had. Of course,
in the future if I have only one copy of a core dump I'll save it
somewhere else before running xdb. Could you change the error mesages
from xdb so it doesn't say xdb: core dumped - something in upper case,
but without the core dump part would be good ( xdb is probably written in 
the C Computer Language so this may not be in your bailiwick )

Mike Corrigan 
mcorrigan@ucsd.edu