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From: glen@astroatc.UUCP (Glen Ecklund)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: What to do with core dumps?
Message-ID: <2488@astroatc.UUCP>
Date: 2 Aug 89 14:34:42 GMT
References: <4016@silver.bacs.indiana.edu> <147@cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu.edu> <25588@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: glen@astroatc.UUCP (Glen Ecklund)
Organization: Astronautics Technology Cntr, Madison, WI
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In article <25588@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth) writes:
->>> what can you do with a core dump?  
->
->If the dump is from a stripped executable not very much.  If the
->executable was not stripped, you can use adb (RTFM) and determine
->where (to the routine level) the programme tossed its cookies.
->With luck you might even see the bad parameter by using the stack
->backtrace command.

adb?  Gee, I thought everybody at Berkeley would know about dbx.

Glen