No core dump

[Lev Assinovsky]

I know for sure that in RedHat 8.x, 9.x gcc doesn't produce core dump.

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Lev Assinovsky
Aelita Software Corporation
O&S InTrust Framework Division, Team Leader
ICQ# 165072909


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Claudio Bley [mailto:bley@cs.uni-magdeburg.de]
> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 3:42 PM
> To: Lev Assinovsky
> Cc: Krzysztof.Wisniowski@siemens.com; gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
> Subject: Re: No core dump
> 
> 
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 03:02:50PM +0300, Lev Assinovsky wrote:
> > If your system is Linux then "no coredump" is a feature.
> > I heard to fix that you have to recompile the kernel.
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Krzysztof.Wisniowski@siemens.com
> > > [mailto:Krzysztof.Wisniowski@siemens.com]
> > > Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 2:55 PM
> > > To: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
> > > Subject: No core dump
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Hi all,
> > > Recently I had to switch to gcc 3.2.  My program crashes with 
> > > segmentation
> > > fault, however no core is dumped. Is there some compiler 
> > > option to force the
> > > system to generate the core file, or is it system feature?
> 
> I think you're talking about a kernel core dump. Normally Linux should
> support core dumps of normal programs and I don't think there is an
> option for that, I may be wrong though. 
> 
> You (Krzysztof) should just check your process resource limits which
> you usually can check and adjust using your shell. E.g. in bash:
> 
> $ ulimit -c            # print core file size limit
> 0                      # <- don't generate core dumps
> $ ulimit -c unlimited  # always generate a core file 
> regardless how big it is
> 
> 
> If you want to control this from your program, have a look at the
> getrlimit and setrlimit functions.
> 
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