core dump and debug

看ulimit預設的一些參數，注意core file size若是0，就不會產生core文件了。

brook@vista:~$ cat -n foo.c 
     1  #include 
     2
     3  static void sub(void);
     4
     5  int main(void)
     6  {
     7      sub();
     8      return 0;
     9  }
    10
    11  static void sub(void)
    12  {
    13      int *p = NULL;
    14
    15      /* derefernce a null pointer, expect core dump. */
    16      printf("%d", *p);
    17  }
    18
    19
brook@vista:~$ gcc -g -Wall foo.c 
brook@vista:~$ ./a.out 
Segmentation fault
brook@vista:~$ ls core*
ls: cannot access core*: No such file or directory
brook@vista:~$ ulimit -c 1024
brook@vista:~$ ./a.out 
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
brook@vista:~$ ls core*
core
brook@vista:~$ gdb ./a.out core 
GNU gdb (Ubuntu/Linaro 7.2-1ubuntu11) 7.2
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...
Reading symbols from /home/brook/a.out...done.
[New Thread 5382]

warning: Can't read pathname for load map: Input/output error.
Reading symbols from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6...
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.13.so...done.
done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
Reading symbols from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
Core was generated by `./a.out'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
#0  0x0000000000400518 in sub () at foo.c:16
16          printf("%d", *p);
(gdb) 

參考資料：
1. http://blog.csdn.net/borefo/article/details/5029555, 在Linux下产生并调试core文件