We can't make everyone happy all the time.
- jared
Johnie Stafford graced my mailbox with this long sought knowledge:
> >>>>> "jm" == Jared Mauch <jared@wolverine.hq.cic.net> writes:
>
> jm> Works for me:
> jm> lunar:~> make test
> jm> cc test.c -o test
> jm> ./test
> jm> lunar:~> ./test
> jm> Floating exception (core dumped)
> jm> lunar:~> file core
> jm> core: ELF 32-bit LSB core file i386 (386 and up) Version 1
> jm> lunar:~> cat test.c
> jm> main()
> jm> {
> jm> printf("%d\n", 0/0);
> jm> }
> jm> lunar:~>
>
>
> jm> Marty Leisner graced my mailbox with this long sought knowledge:
> >>
> >> Does anyone have a magic line to correctly decode a linux elf
> >> core dump?
> >>
> >> I looked in gdb but got pretty confused...(but it seems to understand
> >> the core file).
> >>
> >> It would be worthwhile to write a cheezy program to print the command
> >> name of the core dump if file can't do it...
>
> I think he was looking more for the output that Solaris has:
>
> js@kraken$ ./test
> Arithmetic Exception (core dumped)
> js@kraken$ file core
> core: ELF 32-bit MSB core file SPARC Version 1, from 'test'
> ^^^^^^^^^^^
> This has the name of the offending command in the output file.
>
> Johnie
>
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