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Re: GDB can't read core
>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:
Daniel> 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?
Daniel> It's been fixed for almost every GNU/Linux target already, as
Daniel> people find time.
Ah... In my case, the problem appeared with NetBSD/MIPS.
paul