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From:  Aleksandar Ristovski <aristovski@qnx.com>
Subject:  Re: [patch] solib-svr4.c - allow reading linkmap info from core without  executable
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:16:00 -0000
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Pedro Alves wrote:
> 
> I was thinking on pushing the elf check a bit down instead,
> like the below.  However, having now tested this, I see that
> this doesn't work in most of the cores I have here (x86_64-linux).
> In most cases I see, the segment that would contain the program
> headers, as indicated by auxv info, isn't included in the
> core...
> 
> (objdump -h)
> Idx Name          Size      VMA               LMA               File off  Algn
>   :
>   6 load1         00000000  0000000000400000  0000000000000000  000008f8  2**0
>                   ALLOC, READONLY, CODE
>   :
> 

It is probably not dumped separately  in a note, but if it 
is a full core, then it should be retrievable.

This is the case I have with Neutrino core files.