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From: "Lucy Zhang" <lucyz@uclink4.berkeley.edu>
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Subject: missing text segment in Elf dump
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Hi,

When GDB is debugging an ELF core dump, what is it use for the text segment.
I realized in the Elf core that I've created from another dump file, that
the text segment is cut off because the size is too big. The actual text
segment spans 0x8048000  - 0x98cc4e0, but I only included the first 8MB of
the area in the ELF dump. So I'm wondering what affects will this have on
GDB? what kind of information will be missing due to the incomplete text
segment?

Thanks,
Lucy