Re: [ECOS] gdb and binary core files

[Grant Edwards <grante at visi dot com>]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 10:45:38AM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 10:30:30AM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> 
> > Im trying to do something along the lines of a core dump for eCos. I
> > just want something realy simple. In my setup its easy for me to get a
> > complete copy of the DRAM contents onto my host system. I then have to
> > get gdb to use this data. By default arm-elf-gdb does not seem to
> > support core files. Not a good start. Also, it does not seem possible
> > to specify the format of the core file. You can use "set gnutarget" to
> > set the BFD format, but that seems to apply to everything. I want gdb
> > to use elf for my executable, and binary for my core file.
> 
> Sometime within the past couple years, somebody posted a patch
> to the gdb mailing list that allowed you to dump a region of
> memory to file (I don't remember the format, but I think it was
> something understood by objcopy).

I think I misunderstood -- you want to go the _other_ direction!

-- 
Grant Edwards
grante@visi.com