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Re: [PATCH 4/4] Document the new "-a" argument for gcore
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Sergio Lopez <slp at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 18:35:37 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] Document the new "-a" argument for gcore
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- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> From: Sergio Lopez <slp@redhat.com>
> Cc: Sergio Lopez <slp@redhat.com>
> Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 14:21:48 +0100
>
> +@item -a
> +Instruct GDB to unconditionally dump all sections (except IO), ignoring the
^^^
"@value{GDBN}"
> +value of @file{/proc/@var{pid}/coredump_filter} and the VM_DONTDUMP flag.
Is this Linux-specific? Because AFAIK 'gcore' isn't, and so we need
to document that this switch and the details you've put into its
description are specific to Linux.
Also, VM_DONTDUMP should be in @code.
Thanks.