RE: Backtrace extraction ONLY gdb

Maucci, Cyrille
2011-03-24T11:09:37Z

Hi Alves,

Yes I know that.

++Cyrille

-----Original Message-----
From: Pedro Alves [mailto:pedro@codesourcery.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 11:25 AM
To: gdb@sourceware.org
Cc: Maucci, Cyrille; Joel Brobecker; Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Backtrace extraction ONLY gdb

On Wednesday 23 March 2011 22:51:42, Maucci, Cyrille wrote:
> . you not only need the core files but the libs to debug the core. Indeed, you could argue to setup a 'replica' system to read the core file, but when you've got dozens of customers with dozens of different software versions, this becomes the nightmare.
>

FYI, you don't need a full replica system to read the core file. You only need copies of all the libraries that where loaded at the time of the crash, and point gdb at them with "set sysroot".

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Pedro Alves