Re: How to Find/Generate Core Files

[Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>]

Matthew Johnson wrote:

> I did a few searches in Yahoo!, in Cygwin FAQ and a
> few others places, I can find _mention_ of the word
> 'core', or even that gdb _uses_ core files, but none
> about how to configure Cygwin/g++ to _generate_ the
> core files.
> 
> As it is, I get "core dumped" frequently from the
> application I am running (I did NOT make the make
> files), but cannot find the core file anywhere.

By default you get a .stackdump file, with which you can use addr2line
to get an idea of the backtrace of the stack.  To get a core you need to
use a the dumper program as described in the manual:
<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#dumper>.

Brian

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