Re: What does GDB use taskstruct for?

Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-07-25T16:18:28Z

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.

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Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
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