Does gdb debuginfod download libc etc.?

[Andrew Burgess]

Paul Smith <psmith@gnu.org> writes:

> On Wed, 2026-03-11 at 09:28 +0000, Andrew Burgess wrote:
>> Paul Smith <psmith@gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> > On Tue, 2026-03-10 at 14:20 +0000, Andrew Burgess wrote:
>> > > Attached below is a **VERY** rough patch which might get things
>> > > going for you.
>> > 
>> > ... your patch works for me
>> 
>> I started working on cleaning up the patch ready for submission to
>> master, but I'm pretty busy for the next few days, so it'll probably
>> be next week now before I post anything.
>
> I don't need any updates to these changes: what I have is working for
> me in GDB, and I also added facilities to Google Coredumper to add an
> NT_FILE section to generated coredumps [1].
>
> But, I was wondering if this change is intending to be queued for the
> next release of GDB?

I have a series here:

  https://inbox.sourceware.org/gdb-patches/cover.1773498341.git.aburgess@redhat.com

which includes this fix, I'm hopeful that this will make it into GDB 18.

Thanks,
Andrew


>
> Cheers!
>
>
> [1] https://github.com/madscientist/google-coredumper/commit/d61b7b5d8e91e5c184425c35c6b5ebeac7b60da4