undumping a core image

[Doug Tiarks]

wills ms 01309 writes:
 > "undump" exists which will do such a thing from a core file.  My
 > questions are these:
 > 
 > Is there an FTP site where I can find such an animal?
 > 
 > Can it reliably resume a process from any core file?
 > 
 > How dependent is it on platform type?  I'm using a tahoe running

Undump  is distributed with the Unix version of TeX for making
"preloaded" versions of the tex/metafont programs. I'm not sure
of the exact details of how it works, but it takes a core file
and the original executable and creates a runable program.  I don't
think it can resume execution at the point that the program dumped
core. I believe it just initializes the variables to the values
in the core file.


If you want to take a look at it you can find it in
labrea.stanford.edu:pub/undump.tar.Z 



	Doug Tiarks
	UW-Milwaukee Computing Services Div.

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