Caught signal 9 in core file ????

[Chabane Rezzik]

While running gdb to investigate a core file I noticed at the
beggining of the gdb output while reading the core file
the following line (take a look to the last line):

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This GDB was configured as "i386-pc-solaris2.7"...
Core was generated by `/opt/ALAsm/ConfigMaint/bin/ConfigMaint'.
Program terminated with signal 9, Killed.


How can a signal 9 generate a core file?

Regards,
Chabane



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