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Re: GDB can't read core
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 05:22:43PM -0500, Paul Koning wrote:
> Last I looked at this (in 5.3) there was a general presumption in gdb
> that it would never support core dump reading in any cross-gdb.
>
> I beat on it for a while to get rid of that assumption; it was not
> totally trivial but not all that hard, either. But it was a bit of a
> hack job, so I'm not prepared to submit the resulting changes as gdb
> patches.
>
> Is this considered the Right Way for it to behave? Or is this a
> deficiency that's awaiting fixing in some grand overhaul?
It's been fixed for almost every GNU/Linux target already, as people
find time.
I don't remember the status of ARM. I may have posted it or not.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer