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From: "Lucy Zhang" <lucyz@uclink4.berkeley.edu>
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Subject:  What does GDB use taskstruct for?
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 09:00:00 -0000
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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?

Thanks,
Lucy