I've got a core dump from one of my server-side Perl CGI scripts, and the main line at the end points to /gateway/cgi-bin/test/nph-proxy.cgi (which is a Perl script obviously). When I use gdb on the Perl binary and cross-reference it to the core dump, all I get for a backtrace is:

#0  0x805efe1 in S_my_exit_jump ()
#1  0x805eea9 in Perl_my_exit ()
#2  0x8088d55 in Perl_safemalloc ()
#3  0x8099d0a in S_more_sv ()
#4  0x809e1d5 in Perl_newSV ()
#5  0x805a720 in perl_construct ()
#6  0x8059d38 in main ()
#7  0x400699cb in __libc_start_main (main=0x8059d10 <main>, argc=2, ar
+gv=0xbffffb04, init=0x8058fa8 <_init>,
    fini=0x80d681c <_fini>, rtld_fini=0x4000ae60 <_dl_fini>, stack_end
+=0xbffffafc) at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:92

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Does anyone know how I'd go about finding why this crashed the Perl binary? Thanks!

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In reply to What do you do with a core dump? by LukeyBoy

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