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Re: What does GDB use taskstruct for?
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: Lucy Zhang <lucyz at uclink4 dot berkeley dot edu>
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 12:18:27 -0400
- Subject: Re: What does GDB use taskstruct for?
- References: <002c01ea907c$58225190$9a0a0109@zhangl>
On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 09:02:46AM -0700, Lucy Zhang wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I saw that ELF core dumps contain the TASKSTRUCT struct in its note section.
> I was wondering what does GDB use that for? Since I'm converting a different
> dump to an ELF dump, is it ok if I leave it out? What functionalities of GDB
> would I be losing?
Probably none. Only in a.out dumps did we really use that, I believe.
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Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
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