From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11390 invoked by alias); 28 Mar 2005 23:56:20 -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 11381 invoked from network); 28 Mar 2005 23:56:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 28 Mar 2005 23:56:17 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.50 #1 (Debian)) id 1DG46d-0000xl-TO; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 18:57:15 -0500 Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 23:56:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Jon Ringle Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: arm core analysis on x86 host Message-ID: <20050328235715.GA3654@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Jon Ringle , gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <200503281829.19775.jon.ringle@comdial.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200503281829.19775.jon.ringle@comdial.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i X-SW-Source: 2005-03/txt/msg00267.txt.bz2 On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 06:29:19PM -0500, Jon Ringle wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to analyze an arm core dump on an x86 host and I get the error when > using the core command: > GDB can't read core files on this machine. > > The error message is coming because find_core_target() is returning NULL, and > it's returning NULL because it can't find a match for > (*t)->to_stratum == core_stratum > > I find that the only place that core_stratum gets used to set to_stratum is in > init_core_ops(), which gets called by _initialize_corelow(). However, I can't > find any code that calls _initialize_corelow(). It's called from init.c, which is a generated file, if it is included in the gdb build. See the .mh and .mt files. > 1) Can the current gdb analyze an arm core dump? > 2) If not, I would appreciate some pointers to help me add this support. Take a look at any target which registers core functions in a tdep file, instead of a nat file. arm-linux still does it in the nat file. That just needs to be fixed. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC