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From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Bug in dump_core()
Message-ID: <3906@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 9 Jan 91 15:13:24 GMT
Reply-To: richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin)
Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
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If the stack pointer is outside the stack segment (as it often is) when
core is dumped, the core file won't contain the whole stack.  dump_core()
should adjust the stack segment base before writing it out.

-- Richard
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