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| Newer page: | version 3 | Last edited on Sunday, June 12, 2005 2:00:40 am | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
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-!!!Signal: Abort
+!!! Signal: Abort
-Generated by abort(3). This signal by default causes your program to terminate and dump core
+Generated by abort(3). This signal by default causes your program to terminate and dump core.
+
+abort(3) is often called indirectly by assert(3). Basically this usually means that the program detected an illegal state and has aborted allowing for debugging.
+
+You can often also generate a [SIGABRT] with Ctrl-\, useful if you are trying to debug an infinite loop. (Run the program, wait for it to "hang" press Ctrl-\ or <tt>kill -ABRT ''pid''</tt>, and then use gdb(1) to inspect the core file).
