From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23322 invoked by alias); 31 Jan 2014 18:41:15 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 23312 invoked by uid 89); 31 Jan 2014 18:41:14 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: fencepost.gnu.org Received: from fencepost.gnu.org (HELO fencepost.gnu.org) (208.118.235.10) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 18:41:11 +0000 Received: from 173-9-45-73-newengland.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([173.9.45.73]:50213 helo=[10.1.37.145]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W9J1Y-0004HW-AF; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 13:41:08 -0500 Message-ID: <1391193667.28742.335.camel@pdsdesk> Subject: Re: GDB w/ Mac OS cores: "no core file handler recognizes format" From: Paul Smith Reply-To: psmith@gnu.org To: Stan Shebs Cc: gdb@sourceware.org Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 18:41:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <52EBE906.9010701@earthlink.net> References: <1391120555.28742.307.camel@pdsdesk> <20140131020928.GY9810@adacore.com> <1C03BC66-B7A2-4219-BCF9-C74288F9348E@mit.edu> <52EBE906.9010701@earthlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-01/txt/msg00042.txt.bz2 On Fri, 2014-01-31 at 10:18 -0800, Stan Shebs wrote: > On 1/30/14 11:58 PM, Matt Rice wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 7:20 PM, Klee Dienes wrote: > > (Hi Klee!_ > > >> There should still be a copyright assignment on file for the time > period it was written > > > > I think we need to be wary that copyright on file for the time period > > may not mean that the copyright for that specific piece of code was > > assigned, and note apples unwillingness to do so in the past. > > No, Apple had a blanket assignment to the FSF for all of their GNU work. > Presumably it's still in effect, but it's not something that could be > rescinded retroactively, so old code unaffected in any case. So the idea is that it should be possible to get the last GDB version provided by Apple (this was GDB 6.3.x with Xcode 4.x I think), bring the core dump handling code under FSF copyright due to the blanket assignment, and port it to the newer GDB? The latest GDB binary I have from Apple is GNU gdb 6.3.50-20050815 (Apple version gdb-1824) (from Xcode 4.6.3). It looks like the source for this version is available here: http://www.opensource.apple.com/tarballs/gdb/gdb-1824.tar.gz For now maybe I'll just build this version myself; it doesn't have all the latest GDB goodness but it's got to work better than LLDB.