On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 05:02:35PM -0700, Tony Lin wrote:
> When I force a core file and try to debug it, I get empty values:
>
> >./gdb ./nebtest ./core.524.nebtest
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> Core was generated by `./nebtest'.
> Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
> Reading symbols from /lib/libgcc_s.so.1...done.
> Loaded symbols for /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
> Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...done.
> Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6
> Reading symbols from /lib/ld.so.1...done.
> Loaded symbols for /lib/ld.so.1
> #0 0x00000000 in ?? ()
> (gdb) bt
> #0 0x00000000 in ?? ()
> #1 0x00000000 in ?? ()
Check the contents of the core file with objdump? I recall seeing at
least one recent MIPS kernel which failed to save registers. Take a
look at the .reg section.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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