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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
To: Tony Lin <lin.tony@gmail.com>
Cc: ashley jones <ashley_jones_2000@yahoo.com>, linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: Can't debug core files with GDB
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 09:35:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060525133529.GA31379@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <404548f40605241844y41b897b6sb8a7512feb8655f6@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 06:44:26PM -0700, Tony Lin wrote:
> I've pretty much concluded the gdb is not at fault. Loading a coredump
> generated by another mips-linux system, it was able to read the
> registers correctly and lookup the program counter.
> 
> So the problem now is my 32-bit mips-linux is generating core files in
> a different format than what gdb expects. I've been digging into
> fs/exec.c and fs/binfmt_elf.c without much success. Are there
> documents describing the expected coredump header format?

No.  But...

> I'm not really familiar with the register terminology (fpu? xfpregs?)
> so am having some trouble figuring out where linux write the program
> counter into the core dump.

Take a look at asm-mips/elf.h and IIRC arch/mips/kernel/process.c.  Or,
trace the macros through binfmt_elf.c, where it creates NOTE sections.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-05-25 13:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-17  0:02 Can't debug core files with GDB Tony Lin
2006-05-17 13:34 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-17 18:39   ` Tony Lin
2006-05-19 13:02     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-24  8:14     ` ashley jones
2006-05-25  1:44       ` Tony Lin
2006-05-25  6:05         ` ashley jones
2006-05-25 13:35         ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2006-05-26  0:50           ` Tony Lin
2006-05-26  2:45             ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-26 11:39               ` Johannes Stezenbach
2006-05-27  0:21                 ` Tony Lin
2006-05-27  0:45                   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-27  0:46                   ` Johannes Stezenbach

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