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authorhjk <hjk@qt.io>2018-12-17 14:43:15 +0100
committerhjk <hjk@qt.io>2018-12-20 09:01:24 +0000
commit838919e483b5f5011474fe242ca9fde20dcd0ab3 (patch)
treea43c84763928ae4873e99c73d98cb41d799d2427
parente1a25c6923cc460403451aecdcf88aa0009d508b (diff)
Doc: Add a note on disk space requirements for core dumps
Task-number: QTCREATORBUG-21724 Change-Id: I23605be42a53226417041fb24ff7bd90bb384f34 Reviewed-by: Leena Miettinen <riitta-leena.miettinen@qt.io>
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diff --git a/doc/src/debugger/creator-only/creator-debugger.qdoc b/doc/src/debugger/creator-only/creator-debugger.qdoc
index e9adadbf59..cca7b5773b 100644
--- a/doc/src/debugger/creator-only/creator-debugger.qdoc
+++ b/doc/src/debugger/creator-only/creator-debugger.qdoc
@@ -619,6 +619,11 @@
Double-click on entries in the \uicontrol {Debugger Perspectives} view to
switch between snapshots. The debugger views are updated to reflect the state
of the program at time of taking the snapshot.
+
+ \note Creating snapshots involves creating core files of the debugged process,
+ requiring significant amount of disk space. For details, see
+ \l{https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Core-File-Generation.html}.
+
\endomit
*/