core file not created

[Erik Mouw]

On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 01:27:32PM -0400, Katherine Meiszer wrote:
> I am running code compiled with g++ using gcc version egcs-2.91.66 on a 
> Linux system.  When I get a segmentation fault, no core file is 
> created.  I have never before seen an instance of where a segmentation 
> fault is not accompanied by a core dump.  I wrote a simple test program 
> that does nothing but incorrectly index an array and it also does create 
> a core file when it crashes.

With bash:

  ulimit -c unlimited

With tcsh:

  limit coredumpsize unlimited


Erik

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