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From: Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: Paul Smith <psmith@gnu.org>,
	"gdb@sourceware.org Development" <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: GDB w/ Mac OS cores: "no core file handler recognizes format"
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 09:50:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <89C971FE-7D24-4490-B88C-806218AA290B@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140131020928.GY9810@adacore.com>


On 31 Jan 2014, at 03:09, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> wrote:

>> Unfortunately I can't get it to work at all; I always get this error:
>> 
>>  $ ./x86_64-darwin/bin/gdb -c core.54937 myprog
>>  GNU gdb (GDB) 7.6.2
>>   ...
>>  Reading symbols from myprog...Reading symbols from
>> myprog.dSYM/Contents/Resources/DWARF/myprog...done.
>>  done.
>>  "core.54937": no core file handler recognizes format
> 
> I don't think we support core files on this platform.

Indeed.  We initially wanted to implement it, but we realized that there is no way
to link a register context in the dump core with a thread.  So dump cores weren't
that useful in the context of Ada...

Now adding the support shouldn't be difficult.

Tristan.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-01-31  9:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1391120555.28742.307.camel@pdsdesk>
2014-01-31  2:09 ` Joel Brobecker
2014-01-31  3:20   ` Klee Dienes
2014-01-31  7:58     ` Matt Rice
2014-01-31 13:34       ` Klee Dienes
2014-01-31 18:18       ` Stan Shebs
2014-01-31 18:41         ` Paul Smith
2014-01-31 20:55         ` Joseph S. Myers
2014-01-31 21:10           ` Matt Rice
2014-01-31  9:50   ` Tristan Gingold [this message]

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