RE: Can this be happening?

Mohammed, Moqtadir
2007-07-03T22:16:08Z

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz [mailto:drow@false.org]
>
> On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 02:38:51PM -0700, Jim Blandy wrote:
> > I don't know why the upper bits would be set. GDB may be
> > misinterpreting the information in the core file.
>
> The kernel dumps it as 32-bit too. It's not clear what those bits are
> for, but I bet they're really in your core dump and you should ask the
> kernel developers.
>
> Moves from the segment registers may leave implementation defined data
> in the upper half register - but that's only for fairly old Intel
> processors.

I didn't knew that the dump itself was 32 bit. Will check the core dump code
in kernel to see if it is truncating or not before dumping.

Thanks,
Moqtadir