Re: core format not recognized

"K. Richard Pixley" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.utils
Message-ID <[email protected]>
No clue without examining your core file.

However, if your error is reproducible, you can still debug.  Just run 
it under gdb.  When it fails, you'll be at a place suitable for 
debugging just as though you were debugging with a core file.

--rich

Christian Christmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> after running an application and getting an segmentation 
> fault, I want to figure what part of the code is responsible
> for that. For this purpose I use GNU gdb 6.4.90-debian. I run:
> "gdb EXECUTABLE core" and get the error message:
>
> core" is not a core dump: File format not recognized
>
> (code is compiled with gcc 3.4.6 and -g)
>
> So, debugging is not possible. Any ideas what might be wrong?
>
> Regards,
> Chris
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