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From: <duane@duaneellis.com>
To: "Nikolay Martyanov" <nmartyanov@ptsecurity.com>, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: RE: Custom core file
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 15:31:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160928083121.5c1bb9f86d671edec44bb378f25c04cc.5416b9a60c.wbe@email03.godaddy.com> (raw)

>> So, I guess, dump/restore approach works only in two cases:
>> a) debugging live process you have attached to (it's not my case, as I 
>> perform postmortem debug)
>> b) already has loaded core file, which provides a context via saved CPU 
>> state - and it is the way I chose to follow.

For step (B) - first load a dummy (tiny) standard core file - that gives
you a debug context, think of it as a shim.

Then proceed with adding your symbols and using dump/restore to load
your image.





             reply	other threads:[~2016-09-28 15:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-28 15:31 duane [this message]
2016-09-28 16:37 ` Nikolay Martyanov
2016-09-28 19:22 ` Nikolay Martyanov
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-09-28 13:31 Nikolay Martyanov
2016-09-28 14:28 ` Duane Ellis
2016-09-28 14:58 ` Jan Kratochvil
2016-09-28 15:18   ` Nikolay Martyanov
2016-09-28 15:33     ` Jan Kratochvil
2016-09-28 16:27       ` Nikolay Martyanov
2016-09-28 15:02 ` Nikolay Martyanov

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