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Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:53:00 -0000
From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Maik Beckmann <beckmann.maik@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: debugging gdb
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On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 08:48:01PM +0200, Maik Beckmann wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> gdb-archer segfaults on me at a certain point in my source code.  To give a 
> proper bug report I did wanted to get a backtrace.  So I did
>   ulimit -c unlimited
> to get a core dump.
> 
> However, I all I get by running my systems gdb-6.8 on the core file
>   gdb --core=core

Give GDB a binary, in addition to a core file.  It'll do much better.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery