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Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org> writes:
> okay - what other options are there: is there a way to tell gdb to dump
> core so that I can send it to someone interested in the matter?

You could use gdb's "call" command to invoke fork() or abort() in the
child process.

Though without your emacs image and symbol table, I'm skeptical that
the core file would be terribly useful.