From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32642 invoked by alias); 26 Nov 2003 22:29:31 -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 32635 invoked from network); 26 Nov 2003 22:29:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 26 Nov 2003 22:29:31 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.24 #1 (Debian)) id 1AP8A1-0002vG-Nh; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 17:29:25 -0500 Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 22:29:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Paul Koning Cc: sawitt@electra.rsc.raytheon.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: GDB can't read core Message-ID: <20031126222925.GB5007@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Paul Koning , sawitt@electra.rsc.raytheon.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <16325.10163.916133.242883@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <16325.10163.916133.242883@gargle.gargle.HOWL> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-11/txt/msg00273.txt.bz2 On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 05:22:43PM -0500, Paul Koning wrote: > Last I looked at this (in 5.3) there was a general presumption in gdb > that it would never support core dump reading in any cross-gdb. > > I beat on it for a while to get rid of that assumption; it was not > totally trivial but not all that hard, either. But it was a bit of a > hack job, so I'm not prepared to submit the resulting changes as gdb > patches. > > Is this considered the Right Way for it to behave? Or is this a > deficiency that's awaiting fixing in some grand overhaul? It's been fixed for almost every GNU/Linux target already, as people find time. I don't remember the status of ARM. I may have posted it or not. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer