"Orchid XP v7" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
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> > There's lots you can do. You just don't know how. That's why they give
> > you the stack dump and such.  "Wow, if only I could read a core file,
> > I'd be able to tell which program is dumping core!" :-)
>
> Only hyper-nerds are going to be able to get anything remotely useful
> out of a dump file. To everybody else, it's just wasted disk space.

It's really not hard. All you need is a debugger and the symbols files.
Without the symbols file, you need to be able to read assember. Not
recommended.
At least that's true of the memory dumps I've had before. YMMV.

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