#enabling core dumps

Where’s my Core Dump?

In the old days, the most dreaded message on a Unix system was segmentation fault: core dumped. In the case where it was your program that dumped, you then had to fire up adb and pour over the registers and the stack, cross referencing with the assembly language produced by your compiler. Things got a lot better with symbolic debuggers like gdb, then even better with graphical front ends like ddd