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Re: corefiles/2121: gdb crashes sometimes on huge segment mappings
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: nobody at sources dot redhat dot com
- Cc: gdb-prs at sources dot redhat dot com,
- Date: 3 May 2006 22:18:01 -0000
- Subject: Re: corefiles/2121: gdb crashes sometimes on huge segment mappings
- Reply-to: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
The following reply was made to PR corefiles/2121; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Lynn Kerby <lfk@kerbit.net>
Cc: gdb-gnats@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: corefiles/2121: gdb crashes sometimes on huge segment mappings
Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 18:12:32 -0400
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 02:26:20PM -0700, Lynn Kerby wrote:
> Sorry, I did leave out one step - attempt to generate a core via the
> gcore command. It really isn't terribly difficult to reproduce.
Thank you. I would assume that that was the problem. Gcore just needs
to be modified to process less than 2GB at a time. There's very little
else in GDB that reads the entire contents of a section at once (except
for debug info processing, but >2GB debug info is an entirely different
problem).
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery