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From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
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> >   Don't try to print out the signal number that caused core to be
> >   dumped.  It is not in a fixed location in the file, so at best,
> >   garbage comes out.  I don't think this code was ever valid.
>
> Ouch. Any chance of ever getting this functionality back? I find it
> kinda useful.

Yes, I will put it back.  There's actually a whole "readelf.c" module
in the program, for extracting information from ELF files.  I will put
the functionality there.  The old signal printout was just wrong, and
I had gotten several e-mails from people asking why their program had
gotten a signal 72838. :-) For the immediate term, it seemed better to
remove it than to keep it in its bogus form.

John