[Users] Any 64-bit issues I should be aware of?

Ian Hinder ian.hinder at aei.mpg.de
Mon Aug 25 05:52:08 CDT 2014


On 25 Aug 2014, at 12:35, Ian Smith <the.pond at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:

> On 21/08/14 15:03, Ian Hinder wrote:
>> Try to get a backtrace to find out where the segfault occurred.  You can set "ulimit -c unlimited" in the shell you use to run Cactus, and this should cause core dump files to be generated when the crash happens. You can then read these with gdb:
>> 
>> gdb exe/cactus_sim core.XXXXX
>> 
>> Then type "backtrace" to get the backtrace.
>> 
> Hi Ian,
> 
> I did the ulimit and tried again but there is no core dump, am I missing something (I'm not a C programmer!)?

The core dump files should be somewhere in the simulation directory.  If you do "find path/to/simulation" you should see them.

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Ian Hinder
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