From: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
Message-Id: <199804010120.DAA25171@father.ludd.luth.se>
Subject: Re: Auto-symified traceback
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com (DJGPP-WORKERS)
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 03:20:46 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: george DOT foot AT merton DOT oxford DOT ac DOT uk
Reply-To: martin DOT stromberg AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Precedence: bulk

George Foot said:

:On 31 Mar 98 at 15:54, Martin Stromberg wrote:

:> As for core files, why not? In Unix you can set the maximum core size with
:> limit; perhaps an environment variable or an entry in DJGPP.ENV could be
:> used, and when it's zero or undefined, no core files would be created?
:
:I think the average DOS user would be very annoyed at having large
:files dumped to disk.  IMHO proper core file support (if any) should
:be an optional extra, possibly enabled by the environment or the
:programmer.  Unless GDB can read them I don't expect many people
:would be interested in it though.

Errh. Nice that someone agrees.

Of course, if the core can't be used to help debugging, then it's useless.
Being a Unix user, it is inconcievable that the core wouldn't be of use to
gdb. Is that so?


Right,

							MartinS