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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    RE: I just wonder
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () suse ! de>
Date:       1999-11-30 11:20:44
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On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, David Faure wrote:

> > You could make a view which can be used for browsing "weird"
> > file types
> > like libraries, object files, core dumps etc. Such a view could show
> > usefull information like:
> > * libraries used by this library/object file.
> > * sizes of the various sections in the library/object file
> 
> A nm and ldd frontend... good idea.
> 
> > * program responsible for the core dump
> > * a backtrace leading to the core dump if available
> >
> > Just see what information you can extract with tools like
> > gdb/objdump/nm or maybe libbfd.
> 
> Shouldn't those two be done by kgdb instead ?
> It's already a gdb frontend...

Also a possibility. I was thinking to use libbfd directly so that you
don't need to have gdb installed. You probably need to make a small
GPL'ed core-dump info extractor based on libbfd then to avoid the GPL
virus.

Cheers,
Waldo

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