Re: Thoughts on getting correct line numbers in the byte compiler's warning messages

[Stefan Monnier]

> Another, slightly more honest, answer is that when it wasn't there, my
> Emacs build crashed with a segfault whilst loading .el files.  I didn't
> get a core dump for this segfault.  Could you please tell me (or point
> me in the right direction of documentation) how I configure my GNU/Linux
> to generate core dumps.  I think my kernel's set up correctly, but I
> don't see the dumps.

I can't rmember how to do that, but I recommend you just run emacs (or
temacs as the case may be) within GDB directly rather than go through
a core dump.


        Stefan