Cross GDB and core files

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Cross GDB and core files

From: Elan Feingold <hidden>
Date: 2001-09-05 21:35:57

Hi,

I'm trying to get gdb compiled with host of 386-linux and target of
ppc-linux, mostly for debugging core files.  The ppc_8xx-gdb that came with
hardhat doesn't work, when I run it on a core file I get:

...
warning: couldn't find general purpose registers in core file.
warning: wrong size fpregset struct in core file.
...

And if I try to build gdb from scratch using
"./configure --target=ppc-linux" I get a cross gdb that has no clue how to
read PPC ELF core files.

Help.

-elan


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Re: Cross GDB and core files

From: Cal Erickson <hidden>
Date: 2001-09-05 21:54:52

Elan,
This was a problem with the 4.18 GDB. It was fixed in the HHL releases.
It is fixed in GDB 5.0x. from MontaVista.

Cal Erickson

Elan Feingold wrote:
Hi,

I'm trying to get gdb compiled with host of 386-linux and target of
ppc-linux, mostly for debugging core files.  The ppc_8xx-gdb that came with
hardhat doesn't work, when I run it on a core file I get:

...
warning: couldn't find general purpose registers in core file.
warning: wrong size fpregset struct in core file.
...

And if I try to build gdb from scratch using
"./configure --target=ppc-linux" I get a cross gdb that has no clue how to
read PPC ELF core files.

Help.

-elan
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Re: Cross GDB and core files

From: Peter Barada <hidden>
Date: 2001-09-05 22:16:54

I'm trying to get gdb compiled with host of 386-linux and target of
ppc-linux, mostly for debugging core files.  The ppc_8xx-gdb that came with
hardhat doesn't work, when I run it on a core file I get:

And if I try to build gdb from scratch using
"./configure --target=ppc-linux" I get a cross gdb that has no clue how to
read PPC ELF core files.
I've had luck building gdb-5.0 for powerpc-linux and used it to
debug a PPC linux kernel via a serial port, as well as use it (in
conjunction with gdbserver) to debug application code over the
network.  I used the following to configure:

../gdb-5.0/configure --target=powerpc-linux

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