From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25085 invoked by alias); 6 Oct 2004 13:40:23 -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 25075 invoked from network); 6 Oct 2004 13:40:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 6 Oct 2004 13:40:22 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.34 #1 (Debian)) id 1CFC1l-0005rJ-J3; Wed, 06 Oct 2004 09:40:21 -0400 Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 14:06:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Fabian Cenedese Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: core file not loaded Message-ID: <20041006134021.GB22197@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Fabian Cenedese , gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <5.2.0.9.1.20041006132207.01d43578@NT_SERVER> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.1.20041006132207.01d43578@NT_SERVER> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i X-SW-Source: 2004-10/txt/msg00127.txt.bz2 On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 01:32:03PM +0200, Fabian Cenedese wrote: > Hi > > gdb-6.1.1 on cygwin, target=PPC More specific - what target triplet? > > I tried to read a core dump file of our embedded target, but gdb gives > me an error: > > (gdb) core N:/Temp/SAMCLASS/MemDmp00.bin > GDB can't read core files on this machine. > (gdb) core > GDB can't read core files on this machine. > > I looked for the error message in the sources and found this: > > /* Find a single core_stratum target in the list of targets and return it. > If for some reason there is more than one, return NULL. */ > > But I couldn't see what's wrong. What is needed to work with a core file? The target needs to tell GDB how to load core files. This is a highly OS-specific operation. -- Daniel Jacobowitz