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ELF64 core dumps on 32 bit platforms
- From: Bernhard Walle <bernhard dot walle at gmx dot de>
- To: gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 17:54:58 +0200
- Subject: ELF64 core dumps on 32 bit platforms
Hello,
GDB cannot analyse 64 bit core dumps on 32 bit platforms. This makes
sense for kernel dumps on machines that support a larger physical than
virtual address space, like i686 and PAE. Of course, there's crash, a
special tool for kernel dumps that is based on GDB 6.1 which can
analyse this, but it does memory handling independent of GDB.
The question is: Is it a limitation of the current GDB design that
ELF64 core dumps cannot be handled on 32 bit platforms or would it be
relatively easy to implement?
Thanks,
Bernhard