cross targeted gdb and corefiles

[Kevin "Squail" Endres]

target OS is linux (kernel is 2.4.18).

:]k

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Earnshaw [mailto:rearnsha@arm.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 10:25 AM
To: Kevin "Squail" Endres
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com; Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com
Subject: Re: cross targeted gdb and corefiles 


> I am using a gdb built from a cvs snapshot from 4-29 that is i386 hosted
and
> ARM targeted.
> 
> this gdb does not support reading arm cores. I would like to get a
backtrace
> for an arm failure (indeterminant - cannot set a breakpoint) without
running
> an arm native gdb (or running my application under gdbserver). Is that
> possible??

Not at present.

> 
> if not - is it a feature slated to be added to cross targeted gdb soon? I
> know i run my application under gdbserver...

Maybe.  Some targets can now do this.  Precisely which target OS are you 
using?

R.