[asterisk-dev] asterisk core dumps

Matthew Fredrickson creslin at digium.com
Fri Mar 14 14:38:03 CDT 2008


Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> Tilghman Lesher wrote:
> 
>> Because a dump from an optimized build is not generally useful.  However,
>> there is a runtime flag to enable core dumps:  -g, which performs the same
>> kernel operation as 'ulimit -c unlimited'.
> 
> Maybe we should make that the default when the build was made without
> optimizations; it would save a step for people when they are trying to
> help us debug a problem.
> 

I would like to voice my support for this.  Anything to help us get more 
useful debug data for crashes is a good thing in my book.

-- 
Matthew Fredrickson
Software/Firmware Engineer
Digium, Inc.



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