> Originally-To: Jerry Coffin
> 
>  JV>> Segmentation fault. Which brings us to debugging these things
>  JV>> under Linux... How is it done? I could get a core dump, which I
>  JV>> understand is fed into gdb, but then what? 
> And what is the purpose of the core-file that is generated when a program
> crashes. What can I do with that core-file?
'gdb -core=core'  will tell you which program dumped the core file and
should tell you where it broke (from what I understand). But I still
cannot get the symbols needed from assembly sources, yet gcc -g seems to
work fine on C source. This is a mystery to me, maybe I'm just not
understanding what a "symbol" is.
> I think that what James meant, was that sat.s crashes because he makes use
> of an hercules video-card. ;-)
That's what was meant alright, but the other day I got an SVGA machine up and
still get the segfault. 
BTW, I found what looks like an excellent debugger for Linux Xwindows
called ddd.  Now I need a bigger monitor.. ;-)
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