From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12210 invoked by alias); 24 Apr 2003 14:35:53 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 12203 invoked from network); 24 Apr 2003 14:35:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO crack.them.org) (65.125.64.184) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 24 Apr 2003 14:35:53 -0000 Received: from nevyn.them.org ([66.93.61.169] ident=mail) by crack.them.org with asmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 198hpY-0000LO-00; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 09:36:08 -0500 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 198hpG-0003hP-00; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 10:35:50 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 14:35:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: "John S. Yates, Jr." Cc: gdb Subject: Re: gdb Digest 24 Apr 2003 12:32:23 -0000 Issue 1153 Message-ID: <20030424143550.GA14186@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: "John S. Yates, Jr." , gdb References: <1051187543.20001.ezmlm@sources.redhat.com> <001501c30a6e$4930c880$1400a8c0@astral> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <001501c30a6e$4930c880$1400a8c0@astral> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-04/txt/msg00290.txt.bz2 On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 10:32:08AM -0400, John S. Yates, Jr. wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Daniel Jacobowitz > Sent: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 17:17:16 -0400 > Subject: Re: long long considered harmful? > > > ... I went through this exact thing making core dumps > > work in a cross environment; ... > > Having just modified gdb to allow me to examine ppc cores > on an x86 Linux host I am curious why if you have did this > work once it has not been incorporated into the standard > distribution. Is it that there are inherent architectural > issues or simply an issue of cycle and priorities? I have patches for ARM and i386 to do this which were not in GDB 5.3; I don't remember offhand whether or not they've been done since. That's just a time thing. As far as I know PPC Linux core dumps should already work. What version of GDB are you using? -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer