diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 17715fc..59d4b07 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2018-08-29         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>
+
+	* REGRESS: Check for existence of a.out. If not there, run
+	make.  Enable core dumps for T.arnold system status test
+	to work on MacOS X.
+
 2018-08-22         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>
 
 	* awktest.tar (testdir/T.expr): Fix test for unary plus.
diff --git a/REGRESS b/REGRESS
index facbd83..7d3ded6 100755
--- a/REGRESS
+++ b/REGRESS
@@ -1,5 +1,15 @@
 #! /bin/sh
 
+case `uname` in
+CYGWIN)	EXE=a.exe ;;
+*)	EXE=a.out ;;
+esac
+
+if [ ! -f $EXE ]
+then
+	make || exit 1
+fi
+
 if [ -d testdir ]
 then
 	true	# do nothing
@@ -16,5 +26,10 @@ cd testdir
 pwd
 PATH=.:$PATH
 export PATH
+if (ulimit -c unlimited > /dev/null 2>&1)
+then
+	# Workaround broken default on MacOS X
+	ulimit -c unlimited
+fi
 
 REGRESS