Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ccut!wnoc-tyo-news!etlcom!gama!paul From: paul@chipmunk.bk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Paul Fons) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Bad Magic number using dbx on core dumps Message-ID: Date: 29 Mar 91 04:02:01 GMT Sender: news@gama.is.tsukuba.ac.jp Distribution: comp.unix.questions Organization: Institute of Applied Physics, University of Tsukuba Lines: 18 I am running BSD 4.3 (Sony Rev 3.91R ) on a Sony RISC News (R3000 CPU). The C compiler and dbx are both by MIPS and I am finding that when I generate a core dump that I can't read the resulting file as dbx complains about a bad magic number. Does anyone out there who has used a MIPS machine under BSD have a solution? It is very frustrating to have a program dump core and not have any way to look at what happened. By the way dbx does seem to work perfectly on binaries generated by ld (e.g. if I load an executable into dbx). -- Dr. Paul Fons University of Tsukuba Institute of Applied Physics Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken JAPAN 305 paul@bk.tsukuba.ac.jp fax: (0)298-53-5205