Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: how do I debug core files? | Date | Mon, 6 May 1996 15:01:43 PDT | From | "Marty Leisner" <> |
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> leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com wrote: > >How do I examine core files? > [snip] > >Couldn't fetch registers from core file: File in wrong format > >Couldn't fetch registers from core file: File in wrong format > >#0 0x0 in ?? () > >(gdb) > > I'm getting this too. The problem here seems to be that gdb wants > core files to be a.out. It can perfectly well cope with ELF > *programs*, but can't read ELF cores. > > Is there a build time configuration for gdb that will make this > work? I've tried "./configure i486-linux-elf" but it says it can't > compile for that host. Trying "./configure i486-linux --target > i486-linux-elf" made the thing build, but then it wouldn't do > anything remotely useful for me once it had. >
I'm running 1.3.91 at work and home...
I built gcc and gdb and binutils at work and home seperately...
It works at home, but not at work...
Not sure why...obviously there is something subtle that's wrong...
-- marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Member of the League for Programming Freedom
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