On Thursday 31 August 2006 02:10, Vivek Goyal wrote: > On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 12:35:21PM -0700, Piet Delaney wrote: > > > Simple question -- and to be quite honest with you -- I don't > > > understand why you wouldn't want to simply use gdb alone > > > in this case? > > > > I don't see any reason for core file not to be read correctly by > > gdb. It's convenient to use gdb directly sometimes, for example > > while using the ddd GUI. > > You can run gdb to open core files as of today but the debugging > capability will be limited. For ex. kernel core headers have the info > of linearly mapped region only and they don't contain the virt address > info of non-linearly mapped regions. So one can not debug the non-linearly > mapped regions like modules.
Adding this functionality should be easy. One only has to create crash file support for the osabi "Linux-kernel". -Amit ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Kgdb-bugreport mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kgdb-bugreport
