From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9071 invoked by alias); 25 Jul 2002 16:18:28 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 9062 invoked from network); 25 Jul 2002 16:18:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO crack.them.org) (65.125.64.184) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 25 Jul 2002 16:18:27 -0000 Received: from dsl254-114-118.nyc1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.254.114.118] helo=nevyn.them.org ident=mail) by crack.them.org with asmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17XlJj-0005Ut-00; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 11:18:20 -0500 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17XlJs-0002rd-00; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 12:18:28 -0400 Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 09:18:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Lucy Zhang Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: What does GDB use taskstruct for? Message-ID: <20020725161827.GA10993@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Lucy Zhang , gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <002c01ea907c$58225190$9a0a0109@zhangl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <002c01ea907c$58225190$9a0a0109@zhangl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2002-07/txt/msg00265.txt.bz2 On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 09:02:46AM -0700, Lucy Zhang wrote: > 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? Probably none. Only in a.out dumps did we really use that, I believe. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer