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Date:      Tue, 28 May 1996 12:02:12 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey)
To:        scrappy@ki.net (Marc G. Fournier)
Subject:   Re: Sig 11 on make world (just a query, not a problem report...)
Message-ID:  <199605281003.MAA23289@allegro.lemis.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.93.960527185224.21246F-100000@ki.net> from "Marc G. Fournier" at May 27, 96 06:54:44 pm

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Marc G. Fournier writes:
>
> freebsd# gdb mknodes mknodes.core
> GDB is free software and you are welcome to distribute copies of it
>  under certain conditions; type "show copying" to see the conditions.
> There is absolutely no warranty for GDB; type "show warranty" for details.
> GDB 4.13 (i386-unknown-freebsd),
> Copyright 1994 Free Software Foundation, Inc...
>
> "/usr/src/bin/sh/mknodes.core" is not a core dump: File format not recognized
> (gdb)
>
> 	But:
>
> freebsd# file mknodes.core
> mknodes.core: i386 a.out core file
>
> 	Even if its a hardware related problem, shouldn't I be able to
> look at the core file?

I think that's a software related problem: gdb doesn't understand
well-formed core files.  I've had the same experience with every core
dump I've tried to access under gdb.  Does anybody else have different
experience?

Greg



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