question about why gdb needs executable's binary

[Andreas Schwab]

On Mär 13 2019, Jirka Koutný <koutnji2@gmail.com> wrote:

> If we assume debugging a core file generated by an excutable with stripped
> symbols (that gdb is able to find and load correctly in my case),
> I was wondering why does gdb still need the executable's binary as
> well?

A core file only contains data from modified mappings.  Any data from
read-only mappings needs to be read from the original files.

Andreas.

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