Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/01/13/09:32:35
At 10:47 13/01/98 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
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>DJGPP doesn't support generation of core files. Adding code which
>will dump a memory image to a disk file is easy, but core files aren't
>useful unless they can be fed to a debugger, and as I understand, this
>latter part is not easy at all. I haven't actually tried doing it,
>but Charles Sandmann said here once that interpreting the core image
>from a running DJGPP program is hard. I understand that this is due
>to the way memory is allocated by the DPMI host (it's non-contigous
>and the way it is divided into chunks might be different for every
>invocation).
>
I see. I never paused to think about this, and believed it was a project
decision. Thanks for clarifying this.
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