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Subject:    =?iso-8859-1?Q?Re=3A_GDB_w/_Mac_OS_cores=3A_=22no_core_file_hand?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?ler=A0recognizes_f
From:       Tristan Gingold <gingold () adacore ! com>
Date:       2014-01-31 9:50:24
Message-ID: 89C971FE-7D24-4490-B88C-806218AA290B () adacore ! com
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On 31 Jan 2014, at 03:09, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> wrote:

>> Unfortunately I can't get it to work at all; I always get this error:
>> 
>>  $ ./x86_64-darwin/bin/gdb -c core.54937 myprog
>>  GNU gdb (GDB) 7.6.2
>>   ...
>>  Reading symbols from myprog...Reading symbols from
>> myprog.dSYM/Contents/Resources/DWARF/myprog...done.
>>  done.
>>  "core.54937": no core file handler recognizes format
> 
> I don't think we support core files on this platform.

Indeed.  We initially wanted to implement it, but we realized that there is no way
to link a register context in the dump core with a thread.  So dump cores weren't
that useful in the context of Ada...

Now adding the support shouldn't be difficult.

Tristan.

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