Core dumps on OS X
Core dumps are switched off by default.
Make OS X do a core-dump upon a segmentation fault:
ulimit -c unlimited
Unlike Linux, in OS X core dumps end up in /cores instead of the cwd.
gdb /path/to/your/binary /cores/core.XYZ
Welcome, my name is Harish Mallipeddi. I work for Amazon Web Services (AWS). This blog is mostly a dump of interesting articles that I come across on the web. Topics span across multiple areas including algorithms/datastructures, NoSQL stores, database internals, web-scale challenges, and functional languages.
Core dumps are switched off by default.
Make OS X do a core-dump upon a segmentation fault:
ulimit -c unlimited
Unlike Linux, in OS X core dumps end up in /cores instead of the cwd.
gdb /path/to/your/binary /cores/core.XYZ
