What to do with core dumps?

Guy Harris guy at auspex.auspex.com
Thu Jun 29 04:41:01 AEST 1989


>How to do it? Well, in V7 it was easy... a.out and core formats were almost
>identical.

Nonsense.  In V7 as distributed by AT&T, core files consisted of the U
area of the process, followed by the data and stack segments; it did not
include an a.out header, nor did it include the text of the program,
unless the program was not built with shared text or split I&D space
(i.e.  the program was built without any text). 



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