Re: commit -- more signal handling stuff


Subject: Re: commit -- more signal handling stuff
From: sam th (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Fri Jul 14 2000 - 07:25:28 CDT


On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Martin Sevior wrote:

>
> Sam,
> Is it possible to keep the core dumps for debug or some other
> build options. I find core dumps an extremely useful means of debugging
> code.
>

When the segfault handler is done, it calls abort(), which dumps core in
addition to quitting. So you needn't worry.

Question: Should it dump core in non-debug builds?

                                sam th
                                sam@uchicago.edu
                                http://www.abisource.com/~sam



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