Unable to create a core file for my crashed program

Question

I am using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I wrote a simple program as follows to create crash

// null.c
#include

int main()
{
   int *p = NULL;
   int k=*p;
          


        

Answer 1

You need to adjust your core dump size limit with following command:

ulimit -S -c maximum-core-dump-size

The the value is given in Kb.