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Re: gdb Digest 24 Apr 2003 12:32:23 -0000 Issue 1153
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: "John S. Yates, Jr." <jyates at netezza dot com>
- Cc: gdb <gdb at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 10:35:50 -0400
- Subject: Re: gdb Digest 24 Apr 2003 12:32:23 -0000 Issue 1153
- References: <1051187543.20001.ezmlm@sources.redhat.com> <001501c30a6e$4930c880$1400a8c0@astral>
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 10:32:08AM -0400, John S. Yates, Jr. wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
> Sent: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 17:17:16 -0400
> Subject: Re: long long considered harmful?
>
> > ... I went through this exact thing making core dumps
> > work in a cross environment; ...
>
> Having just modified gdb to allow me to examine ppc cores
> on an x86 Linux host I am curious why if you have did this
> work once it has not been incorporated into the standard
> distribution. Is it that there are inherent architectural
> issues or simply an issue of cycle and priorities?
I have patches for ARM and i386 to do this which were not in GDB 5.3; I
don't remember offhand whether or not they've been done since. That's
just a time thing.
As far as I know PPC Linux core dumps should already work. What
version of GDB are you using?
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer