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Re: Dumper produces unuseable dumps (fix).


Hi Pedro,

On Apr 26 21:37, Pedro Alves wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I noticed that dumper isn't working for me, silently exiting
> without producing a dump, so I tried building it from source.
> The problem was that the bfd_set_arch_mach (core_bfd, bfd_arch_i386, 0)
> call was failing.  I couldn't debug it, since it was linked
> into the system /usr/lib/libbfd.a, which doesn't come with
> debug info.  I then tried to link with with a cvs bfd, and that
> problem goes away.
> 
> But, I then found out that gdb wasn't reading the dumps.  After
> some investigation, I found that the core file is built with
> section headers, and no program headers.  Since it is
> bfd_make_section_from_phdr that makes the magic sections that
> gdb reads from, the current dumper makes useless core dumps.
> [...]
> The attached patch fixes it by programatically making a
> phdr for each section.  I now get readable dumps.
> [...]
> Could this fix be considered for inclusion, please?

Thanks for this patch.

Unfortunately, the patch is too big to fall under the trivial patch
rule, so Red Hat needs a signed copyright assignment from you.
Please have a look on http://cygwin.com/contrib.html, especially the
"Before you get started" section, which has a link to the assignment
form.  As soon as we got the signed form from you, the patch can go
in.


Thanks,
Corinna

-- 
Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Project Co-Leader          cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat


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