[zoo@localhost research]$ gdb GNU gdb 4.18 Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux". (gdb) file research Reading symbols from research...done. (gdb) core-file core Core was generated by `research test-3.ppm'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6...done. Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6...done. Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6...done. Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6...done. Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXi.so.6...done. Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6...done. Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6...done. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2...done. Reading symbols from /lib/libm.so.6...done. Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...done. Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done. #0 0x40207e96 in chunk_free (ar_ptr=0x4029c040, p=0x81d9470) at malloc.c:3033 3033 malloc.c: No such file or directory. (gdb)