core dumps are HUGE...

[John-Mark Gurney]

If someone wants to spend some time investigating this, this looks like
an interesting puzzle:
-bash-2.05b$ cat t.c
int main() { char *p = 0; *p = 5; return 0;}
-bash-2.05b$ cc -static -o t t.c
-bash-2.05b$ ./t
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
-bash-2.05b$ ls -l t t.core
-rwxr-xr-x  1 jmg  jmg  179737 Mar 21 10:36 t
-rw-------  1 jmg  jmg  50049024 Mar 21 10:36 t.core

I first read that as 5megs, but it turns out that it's 50megs in size!
A 50 meg core dump for a static program that does nothing?  Though I
also have questsions about a 179k program file size for something that
doesn't call any functions...

Now the interesting part is that dynamicly linked:
-bash-2.05b$ cc -o t t.c
-bash-2.05b$ ./t
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
-bash-2.05b$ ls -l t t.core 
-rwxr-xr-x  1 jmg  jmg    4615 Mar 21 10:38 t
-rw-------  1 jmg  jmg  303104 Mar 21 10:38 t.core

only 303k...  Still on the hefty side of things for a program that
just cores, but better than static's 50megs...

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