Re: Remote core file debugging

[David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Is gdbserver supposed to support remote post-mortem debugging using a
> core file on a remote machine?
> 
> I have a situation where producing a backtrace from a dead program's
> core file by running GDB on the machine where the application crashed
> is impractical.  This is because the program has huge amounts of debug
> info, so starting GDB eats up all memory, which is a no-no, since the
> application which restarted itself after a crash must be up at all
> times, and eating up too much memory causes the OS to kill
> applications.  So I'm looking for ways of producing the equivalent of
> "bt full", but without firing up GDB on the target system (a Red Hat
> box).
> 
> If gdbserver does not support this, what alternatives do I have?
> 

I must be missing something, but why can't you move the core file to the 
debugging host and debug it there with gdb?

David Daney