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From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
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In-reply-to: <3C17D3A0.DE140BFB@cygnus.com> (message from Michael Snyder on
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Subject: Re: [RFC] New command 'gcore'
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> From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@cygnus.com>
> Newsgroups: cygnus.patches.gdb
> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 14:01:04 -0800
> 
> The idea is that 'gcore' would cause gdb to generate a core image
> of the inferior program (just like the 'gcore' unix command).
> The user could drop a core file at any point in the inferior's
> execution, and save the memory and register state for debugging later.
> We ought to be able to cook up an elf core file pretty easily using
> bfd.

Sounds great!