help requested for diagnosing core dump

[Toon Moene]

Elkin David wrote:

> Could you help me track down the cause of a 'core
> dump'
> in a large Fortran 77 and C program?
> 
> After debugging manually, using 'dbg,' and adding
> compiler flags I have not succeeded. Were it not for
> the core dump, I would have thought all was fine since
> all output is generated and has been checked for
> accuracy.

Are you sure the core file is *new*, i.e., not a core file from a 
previous invocation of the program ?

What happens if you say: `gdb <executable> core' and issue the gdb 
command `where' ?

Hope this helps,

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