Re: Can't debug core files with GDB

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>]

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.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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