Re: Pb: gdb cannot read core from 2.0.8 (is it a gdb or kernel problem)?

To: arrouye@marin.fdn.fr (Yves Arrouye)
Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Pb: gdb cannot read core from 2.0.8 (is it a gdb or kernel problem)?
From: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 00:00:29 +0200 (MET DST)
Message-id: <[🔎] 199608092200.AAA11330@picard.cistron.nl>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 199608091152.NAA23955@marin.fdn.fr> from "Yves Arrouye" at Aug 9, 96 01:52:29 pm

You (Yves Arrouye) wrote:
> GDB 4.15.1 (i486-linux), Copyright 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc...
> 
> "0¨´
>     @/core": not in executable format: File format not recognized
> 
> So there's a problem there. Do you have an idea about who is faulty? Gdb?

As I understand it, the way you call gdb is

gdb [executable] [its core file]

preferrably with [executable] compiled with -g and linked statically

I doubt that gdb can read core files without an accompanying executable..

Mike.
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