Re: expected behavior of GNU/Linux gcore and corefiles

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>]

> On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 10:39:00PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 
>> > My instincts tell me that, to completly implement the above 
>> > functionality, GDB is always going to need libthread-db.  If GDB could 
>> > implement the above on a core file without using libthread-db, then GDB 
>> > could also implement the above on a live target also without using 
>> > libthread-db.  This is because a core file is always going to contain a 
>> > subset of the information made available via ptrace et.al.
> 
> 
> Oh, and one other thing that I like to mention when this comes up.  My
> previous message was the implementation issues involved; this one's the
> motivational issue.  Thread_db is not, and can't/shouldn't be,
> available in a cross environment.  We have done a lot of work to make
> GDB read corefiles in a cross environment; and at MontaVista we've seen
> a large demand for this functionality from our customers.  So using
> thread_db with corefiles doesn't meet our (GDB developers') goals, I
> think.

Sorry, on this point, I'm lost.  What are you suggesting here?

Andrew