Vishnu Mahadevan Menon <vishnu_m_menon@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > How can a program generate a core dump of itself > programmatically when it is running without crashing? This is not a compiler question, and this is the wrong mailing list for it. You are asking a question about programming on whatever operating system you are using. I don't know of a way to do this, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was one. Ian