Re: How useful can a 'coredump' be?

"Evenbit" <nbaker2328@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Subject:  How useful can a 'coredump' be?
> Well, we can create our own coredumps to find the answers....
>
> One can obtain a 'dumper' library here:
> http://code.google.com/p/google-coredumper/
>
> Then write some Nasm code:
>
<snip>
>
> Then, we can cribb a make file:
>
<snip>
>
> nasm -f elf -o coretest.o coretest.asm
>
> Throw these to files into "coredumper-1.1/examples/" and do:
>
> $ make -f Makefile.n
> $ ./coretest
> $ readelf -a corefile.dat
> $ objdump -d corefile.dat
> $ gdb coretest corefile.dat
>
> Conclusions??

None here.

How about posting a sample of readelf, objdump, and gdb's output for
non-Linux'rs...

Coredumps as I remember them were just an unuseable waste of disk space
that
was created when the OS "got confused" and faulted...  I wasn't aware they
might've become a useful tool on Linux.


RP