Neil Horman wrote: > > > Agreed on all counts... > > > > Keep in mind, however, that the use of the makedumpfile "-c" option will be > > fairly > > common, and gdb cannot read compressed dumpfiles. If you want to maintain > > gdb compatibility across the board, perhaps there should be yet another > > option > > that translates a compressed dumpfile into an ELF vmcore? > > > There is, I think its the -E option. > Neil >
There is a -E option, which creates an ELF core dump from the /proc/vmcore file. My question is whether makedumpfile can take a compressed dumpfile that was created with -c, and then at a later point in time, create an ELF vmcore from it. Dave > > > My only thought was that it may be be fairly trivial to implement support > > for the intermediate file format in crash. And it that's true, why not? > > > > Dave > > > > > > -- > /*************************************************** > *Neil Horman > *Software Engineer > *Red Hat, Inc. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > *gpg keyid: 1024D / 0x92A74FA1 > *http://pgp.mit.edu > ***************************************************/ _______________________________________________ fastboot mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/fastboot
