Matthew Johnson wrote: > I did a few searches in Yahoo!, in Cygwin FAQ and a > few others places, I can find _mention_ of the word > 'core', or even that gdb _uses_ core files, but none > about how to configure Cygwin/g++ to _generate_ the > core files. > > As it is, I get "core dumped" frequently from the > application I am running (I did NOT make the make > files), but cannot find the core file anywhere.
By default you get a .stackdump file, with which you can use addr2line to get an idea of the backtrace of the stack. To get a core you need to use a the dumper program as described in the manual: <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#dumper>. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/