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From: JT Williams <jeffw AT darwin DOT sfbr DOT org>
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-: > Is it reasonable to ask people to install GDB just to get a traceback?
-: 
-: If people are getting tracebacks, the best course of action is to
-: debug and hopefully fix the problem.  GDB is a better tool than symify
-: for this.  If we had had core files all along, symify would never have
-: been written.
-: 
-: At worst, the user could send the core file to the application
-: developer so that *they* could debug it.

I was going to suggest an on-line GDB similar to DJ's Public Access
Compiler Service.  Is a core file useful without the executable of
the program that is crashing?