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.
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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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