Forcing C program to core dump

[Niclas Zeising]

Garrett Cooper wrote:
> Hello,
>    This may be obvious to some, but after some Googling (apparently with 
> the wrong search terms, perhaps) and reading the gcc/gdb manpages, I 
> can't seem to find out how to get a program to produce core dumps.
>    So I was wondering, is there some simple means to produce core dumps 
> or a set of conditions that I need to adhere to in order to get the OS 
> to core dump the progrdam???
> Thanks,
> -Garrett

Just kill it with the abort signal (SIGABRT) or some other signal that 
makes the program dump core. Be aware though that if you are catching or 
ignoring the signal, this won't work.
Regards!
//Niclas
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