From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11393 invoked by alias); 24 Mar 2011 10:25:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 11375 invoked by uid 22791); 24 Mar 2011 10:25:10 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_SPEC_REPLICA_OBFU,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (38.113.113.100) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 10:25:06 +0000 Received: (qmail 11723 invoked from network); 24 Mar 2011 10:25:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO scottsdale.localnet) (pedro@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 24 Mar 2011 10:25:05 -0000 From: Pedro Alves To: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Backtrace extraction ONLY gdb Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 10:25:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.35-28-generic; KDE/4.6.1; x86_64; ; ) Cc: "Maucci, Cyrille" , Joel Brobecker , Eli Zaretskii References: <0E02F16954AF394BB163AEE50FDF5485690094DFED@GVW1121EXC.americas.hpqcorp.net> <20110323224339.GS2534@adacore.com> <0E02F16954AF394BB163AEE50FDF548569009DAB62@GVW1121EXC.americas.hpqcorp.net> In-Reply-To: <0E02F16954AF394BB163AEE50FDF548569009DAB62@GVW1121EXC.americas.hpqcorp.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201103241025.02523.pedro@codesourcery.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-03/txt/msg00144.txt.bz2 On Wednesday 23 March 2011 22:51:42, Maucci, Cyrille wrote: > . you not only need the core files but the libs to debug the core. Indeed, you could argue to setup a 'replica' system to read the core file, but when you've got dozens of customers with dozens of different software versions, this becomes the nightmare. > FYI, you don't need a full replica system to read the core file. You only need copies of all the libraries that where loaded at the time of the crash, and point gdb at them with "set sysroot". -- Pedro Alves