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From: dcd@tc.fluke.COM (David Dyck)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: core dumps (lack of register information in them)
Keywords: minix pc core registers adb debugger wishlist
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Date: 26 Sep 89 04:39:46 GMT
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Currently, when dump_core in mm/signal.c is called to write out
the core image for a process, only the memory segments are written out.

Unix V7 also wrote out the registers in the first 1024 bytes of the core
image as part of the systems per-user data for that process.

I think it would be good if future minix core dumps
would include the registers, etc. as part of the core dump.

Has anyone else started working on this yet? (or should I adopt this project?)
What do Minix/ST core dumps look like?

            David Dyck
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