core file not loaded

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 01:32:03PM +0200, Fabian Cenedese wrote:
> Hi
> 
> gdb-6.1.1 on cygwin, target=PPC

More specific - what target triplet?

> 
> I tried to read a core dump file of our embedded target, but gdb gives
> me an error:
> 
> (gdb) core N:/Temp/SAMCLASS/MemDmp00.bin
> GDB can't read core files on this machine.
> (gdb) core
> GDB can't read core files on this machine.
> 
> I looked for the error message in the sources and found this:
> 
> /* Find a single core_stratum target in the list of targets and return it.
>    If for some reason there is more than one, return NULL.  */
> 
> But I couldn't see what's wrong. What is needed to work with a core file?

The target needs to tell GDB how to load core files.  This is a highly
OS-specific operation.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz