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Re: GDB can't read core

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
To: Paul Koning <pkoning at equallogic dot com>
Cc: sawitt at electra dot rsc dot raytheon dot com, gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 17:29:25 -0500
Subject: Re: GDB can't read core
References: <Pine.LNX.4.56.0311261310460.21580@zeus.rsc.raytheon.com> <16325.10163.916133.242883@gargle.gargle.HOWL>

On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 05:22:43PM -0500, Paul Koning wrote:
> Last I looked at this (in 5.3) there was a general presumption in gdb
> that it would never support core dump reading in any cross-gdb.
> 
> I beat on it for a while to get rid of that assumption; it was not
> totally trivial but not all that hard, either.  But it was a bit of a
> hack job, so I'm not prepared to submit the resulting changes as gdb
> patches. 
> 
> Is this considered the Right Way for it to behave?  Or is this a
> deficiency that's awaiting fixing in some grand overhaul?

It's been fixed for almost every GNU/Linux target already, as people
find time.

I don't remember the status of ARM.  I may have posted it or not.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer

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