checking build IDs in core files

[Jan Kratochvil]

Hi,

currently not in the FSF GDB repository.

There is a patch for it for gdb-6.8 (being ported to HEAD now)
  http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewvc/rpms/gdb/devel/gdb-6.6-buildid-locate.patch?view=co

but it has currently merged two unrelated functionalities:
(a) The expected locating of appropriate binaries from a bare core file.
(b) Reporting missing debuginfo rpms from missing .debug files.

The patch will get submitted for a review for FSF GDB after some cleanups.


Regards,
Jan


On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 04:31:53 +0100, Nathan Miller wrote:
> Hello-
> 
> Does GDB do anything with the build IDs contained within a core file?
> 
> It looks like they're completely ignored in the core file, and only extracted from a binary file in order to find a separate debug file.
> 
> Am I missing something here?
> 
> Thanks,
> Nate