At 10:15 AM -0500 11/23/04, Matt Fowles wrote:
All~
Aperiodically I notice that my parrot directory has quite a few core
files in it (usually around 6), even though I have done nothing with
it except cvs -q update -dP; [make realclean;perl Configure.pl;]
make; make [full]test. Usually it says that all of the tests pass or
one or two tests fail, but I don't notice it dieing painfully... Are
these core files anything of significances?
Yeah, they are. You shouldn't ever get core files of things work out
properly.
Pull 'em into gdb (gdb ./parrot core_file_name) and poke around --
that'll give you an idea what's going on and why they died.
GDB's got good help, and I don't have a handy core file to poke
around with, so I'm not sure how to get the command-line params out
of the core file. After loading it up, though, a bt will show you
the call stack at the time things died.
--
Dan
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