Re: Post-mortem debugging and abort

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:48:34 +0200
> 
> Well, the whole difference between exit (or maybe _exit?) and abort is
> the core dump, and that is why abort rather than exit is also called on
> failed assertions.  So debugging is the whole point of abort and
> declaring it in a way that precludes debugging is a bit pointless.

And even if they disagree about this, GCC and glibc could have behaved
differently under -g.