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Re: core file not loaded
>> gdb-6.1.1 on cygwin, target=PPC
>
>More specific - what target triplet?
Sorry, --host=i686-pc-cygwin --target=powerpc-eabi
>> I tried to read a core dump file of our embedded target, but gdb gives
>> me an error:
>>
>> (gdb) core N:/Temp/SAMCLASS/MemDmp00.bin
>> GDB can't read core files on this machine.
>> (gdb) core
>> GDB can't read core files on this machine.
>>
>> I looked for the error message in the sources and found this:
>>
>> /* Find a single core_stratum target in the list of targets and return it.
>> If for some reason there is more than one, return NULL. */
>>
>> But I couldn't see what's wrong. What is needed to work with a core file?
>
>The target needs to tell GDB how to load core files. This is a highly
>OS-specific operation.
My understanding was, that I could take a memory snapshot of the
target (in this case about 4MB) and feed this to gdb so gdb will use
this file for read accesses instead of reading a physical target (in
addition to the symbolfile). Is this wrong? Or is this not a core file?
Thanks
bye Fabi