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Re: [RFC] New command 'gcore'
- From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
- To: msnyder at cygnus dot com
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 01:04:00 +0200
- Subject: Re: [RFC] New command 'gcore'
- References: <3C17D3A0.DE140BFB@cygnus.com>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
> From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@cygnus.com>
> Newsgroups: cygnus.patches.gdb
> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 14:01:04 -0800
>
> The idea is that 'gcore' would cause gdb to generate a core image
> of the inferior program (just like the 'gcore' unix command).
> The user could drop a core file at any point in the inferior's
> execution, and save the memory and register state for debugging later.
> We ought to be able to cook up an elf core file pretty easily using
> bfd.
Sounds great!