From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19863 invoked by alias); 25 May 2012 14:22:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 19852 invoked by uid 22791); 25 May 2012 14:21:58 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-7.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W,SPF_HELO_PASS,TW_JM,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 25 May 2012 14:21:46 +0000 Received: from int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.24]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q4PELjae010861 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 25 May 2012 10:21:45 -0400 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q4PELAwc030405; Fri, 25 May 2012 10:21:44 -0400 Message-ID: <4FBF9555.8030902@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 14:22:00 -0000 From: Pedro Alves User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120430 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jmf list CC: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: siginfo and core files References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-05/txt/msg00124.txt.bz2 On 05/25/2012 02:53 PM, jmf list wrote: > Is it possible to access the si_addr and si_signo siginfo fields from > a core dump in GDB? > When debugging a live process I access these > values via the $_siginfo convenience var. I am not sure if both of > these values are normally stored in a core dump, or if they are > accessible via GDB. I don't think the whole siginfo object is stored on core files. See /usr/include/linux/elfcore.h . The elf_prstatus and elf_prpsinfo structures is what is put in the core. We can retrieve some info, but unfortunately, it doesn't look like si_addr is anywhere to be found. -- Pedro Alves