From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32352 invoked by alias); 6 Jun 2012 18:19:34 -0000 Received: (qmail 32331 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Jun 2012 18:19:33 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W,SPF_HELO_PASS,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; Wed, 06 Jun 2012 18:19:20 +0000 Received: from int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.12]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q56IJHGC001449 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 6 Jun 2012 14:19:18 -0400 Received: from barimba (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q56IJGut006220 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 6 Jun 2012 14:19:16 -0400 From: Tom Tromey To: Fredrik Hederstierna Cc: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Simple suggestion to get basic core-file alike functionality for bare-metal targets References: Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2012 18:19:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Fredrik Hederstierna's message of "Mon, 4 Jun 2012 11:32:55 +0200") Message-ID: <87pq9cgv6j.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.97 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain 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: 2012-06/txt/msg00037.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Fredrik" == Fredrik Hederstierna writes: Fredrik> Note though, that the dump files needs to be generated by Fredrik> debugged code itself, if running without connection to Fredrik> GDB. This to examine eg. crashes off-line later. The point is Fredrik> to get some kind of standard format and to ease the restoring Fredrik> of registers etc. Fredrik> I can consider to look into adding the dump-register command Fredrik> and put some own time into this, if the community think its a Fredrik> good idea? I didn't see a reply to this. If you're going to go this far, and also add support for this to some OS, why not just implement "real" core files? Tom