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➜ What do I do with core files again?
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What do I do with core files again?
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| Posted by
| Aqueus
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| Fri 23 Feb 2007 02:04 AM (UTC) |
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| | This sounds silly, I'm sure, but I don't have any clue what they are or what I'm supposed to do with them. They cost me a meg on the server and I open them up to find about 6 ASCII characters, any help on how to look at them proper? | | Top |
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| Posted by
| David Haley
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| Reply #1 on Fri 23 Feb 2007 02:27 AM (UTC) |
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| A core file is a dump of your program at the time it crashed. You use it, combined with a debugger such as gdb, to figure out why the crash happened.
You might want to look through:
http://www.gammon.com.au/forum/bbshowpost.php?bbsubject_id=3653
Nick has some pretty good information there, and it should help you get started if you want to debug. |
David Haley aka Ksilyan
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