ELF64 core dumps on 32 bit platforms

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 05:54:58PM +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote:
> 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?

Probably not very hard.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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