Core dump analysis without GDB - RHEL Linux

[Pratheesh]

Hi All,

Do we have any other debugging tools for analysing the core dump, other than GDB available with Linux? We are using RHEL5.1.

Thanks and Regards,
Pratheesh.

[Matti_Kurkela]

What's your problem with gdb?

If you need a more friendly user interface, there are GUI wrappers for gdb for that. For example, xxgdb that uses plain X11, and KDbg for KDE Desktop Environment. The RHEL 5 distribution probably includes some of them as optional packages. Use your package manager to find them (check the categories for programming utilities), install and start using them.

If the problem is a lack of a specific feature, then you may wish to check out Intel's debugger for Linux:

http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/idb-linux/

However, I'm not sure whether it is free or not.

If the problem is in understanding the debugger's output, a debugger is already designed to present all the facts it can find in most expressive format possible: it is the job of the user to understand what it means.

Debugging a program can often be more challenging than writing one in the first place. Until major advances happen in the field of Artificial Intelligence, skilled human programmers are still invaluable in this task.

MK

[macosta]

Have you looked into the crash utility?

http://people.redhat.com/anderson/crash_whitepaper/

[dirk dierickx]

sometimes a simple 'file core' tells already enough ;)