diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index 7f6b3cd1d..5ca963dd6 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@ Revision history for Verilator
 The contributors that suggested a given feature are shown in [].  [by ...]
 indicates the contributor was also the author of the fix; Thanks!
 
+* Verilator 3.62**
+
+**** Don't core dump on errors when not under --debug.  [Allan Cochrane]
+
 * Verilator 3.620 10/04/2006
 
 ***  Support simple inout task ports.  [Eugene Weber]
diff --git a/src/V3Error.cpp b/src/V3Error.cpp
index a1c677d0d..0eb6f8840 100644
--- a/src/V3Error.cpp
+++ b/src/V3Error.cpp
@@ -268,8 +268,13 @@ void V3Error::v3errorEnd (ostringstream& sstr) {
 		    }
 #endif
 		}
-		abort();
-//		exit(10);
+
+		if (V3Error::debugDefault()) {
+		    cerr<<msgPrefix()<<"Aborting since under --debug"<<endl;
+		    abort();
+		} else {
+		    exit(10);
+		}
 	    }
 	}
     }