Cygwin normally does not produce core dumps, but only simple textual 
stack backtraces (try to look at gtl.exe.stackdump using your text 
editor). However, you can have full core dumps using dumper utility; see 
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#DUMPER for details.

Pavel

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm having another problem with GDB.  Normally, one would debug a core file
> as follows (correct?):
> 
>     gdb -nw gtl.exe gtl.exe.stackdump
> 
> Unfortunately, I get the following in response:
> 
> 
>>GNU gdb 5.0 (20010428-3)
>>Copyright 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>>GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
>>welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
>>Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
>>There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
>>This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-cygwin"...
>>"/home/w/src/gtl/gtl.exe.stackdump" is not a core dump: File format not recognized
>>(gdb) 
> 
> 
> Is this an operator error?
> 


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