Re: examining remote core dumps; MT support for attach;

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at redhat dot com>]

> On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 05:17:03PM -0400, nak26 wrote:
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> > >> How hard would it be to add support for that? I can give it a try, but 
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> > would
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> > >> need some guidance...
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> > >
> > >I have no idea how you would do it.  You'd have to transfer essentially
> > >the same info anyway.  Or port gdbserver to have a "core file" target
> > >but I don't know how well that would work.
>
> > What do you mean by "Or port gdbserver to have a "core file" target
> > but I don't know how well that would work"?
>
>
> Allow gdbserver to read from a core file instead of a running process. 
> It would be tricky; you'll have to figure out how to do it yourself.

There was a suggestion made that GDB could manipulate files on the 
remote system (mainly to get at /proc/auxv).  Such a mechanism would 
also address the core file problem.

nak26, do you have an FSF assignment?

Andrew


> > >> I saw a PREPARE_TO_PROCEED patch beeing mentioned in some of the posts. In
> > >> which cases it heeds to be applied?
>
> > >
> > >You'll probably never hit it unless you manually use the "thread"
> > >command to switch threads and then single-step the new thread.
>
> > In case I need it, where can I get it from?
>
>
> The list archives.
>
> -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer