[plug] how can a core file be read?

[John Summerfield]

> I've surfed the man pages and found dbx, but still can't figure out how to us
> e it to get more information from a core file.
> 
> I'd like to find out what caused the coredump.  Any ideas?

[summer at possum summer]$ file /u02/summer/Source/dircon/core
/u02/summer/Source/dircon/core: ELF 32-bit LSB core file of 'dircon' 
(signal 11), Intel 80386, version 1
[summer at possum summer]$ 


To do more,
1	THe program needs to have been compiled and linked with appropriate 
debugging info
2	You need the source code
3	You need gdb (and possibly one of its GUI frontends)

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