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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: Marc Paloma <marc_paloma@yahoo.com>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: offline core file analysis from a PPC 440GX target on my Solaris hostsystem
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 00:10:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031204001044.GA18798@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031204000322.98248.qmail@web9608.mail.yahoo.com>

On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 04:03:22PM -0800, Marc Paloma wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> Is it possible to configure a version of GDB for
> "--host=sparc-solaris2.8 and
> --target=powerpc-ibm-vxworks5.5" that can analyze a
> core file from an IBM PPC 440GX embedded system
> offline?   Currently, I'm getting the following error
> from GDB 5.3:
> 
>  (gdb) core-file 440gxdump
>  GDB can't read core files on this machine.
> 
> (1) Is there any version of GDB which is aware of the
> IBM PPC 440GX processor architecture?  I am aware of
> WindRiver having a version of GDB however,
> their version of GDB does not support the gdb corefile
> functionality.  I'm not interested in remote online
> debugging of the 440GX.  However, I would like a way
> to build a version of GDB which can analyze a core
> file from a 440GX memory dump and be able to do a
> backtrace, info registers, frame into the stack, and
> look at local/global variables.

I do not believe that any PPC VxWorks target supports core files.  You
could try a powerpc-linux debugger but (A) I believe you'll need 6.0
and (B) it is unlikely that it will understand the VxWorks dump notes.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer


  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-04  0:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-04  0:03 Marc Paloma
2003-12-04  0:10 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2003-12-04 11:57   ` Marc Paloma
2003-12-04 13:30     ` Daniel Jacobowitz

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