Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 10:47:00 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Cesar Scarpini Rabak <csrabak AT dce03 DOT ipt DOT br>
cc: Peter Palotas <blizzar AT hem1 DOT passagen DOT se>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Call traceback.
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On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Cesar Scarpini Rabak wrote:

> DJGPP programs generate a core file?

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).