On Thu, 5 Oct 1995, Jason Huang wrote: > Whenever Unix C tries to execute a program it cannot handle, it dumps > whatever data it failed to handle from memory into a file, commonly > called core dump; and, usually, as a consequence of segmentation fault, > bus error, memory fault, and pipeline error ( just naming some that has > happened to me ). You can decipher whatever went wrong with the help of a > debugger such as gdb. Core dumps has really nothing to do with C.. Unix will dump a core when a program tries to access a piece of memory it does not have access to. The core is a dump of all the memory the program your program you were running. This is why it tend to be fairly big. *************************************************************************** * Ole Gjerde | Computer Science major * * | at North Dakota * * Homepage: http://www.winternet.com/~gjerde | State University * * Email: Gjerde@plains.NoDak.edu |-------------------------* * Gjerde@winternet.com | Proud user of Linux * ***************************************************************************
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