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Date:      Fri, 23 Feb 2001 12:59:19 -0800
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        Jim Pirzyk <Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: gdb and debugging Linux binaries
Message-ID:  <3A96CF27.B2B624BD@cup.hp.com>
References:  <01022213560407.44596@snoopy.fan.fa.disney.com> <20010222030457.A2624@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com>

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Greg Lehey wrote:
> 
> On Thursday, 22 February 2001 at 13:55:07 -0800, Jim Pirzyk wrote:
> >
> > I have a question on how to debug Linux binaries.  I have a core
> > file from the linux binary, but if I use the FreeBSD gdb, it cannot
> > find the shared libraries in /compat/linux/....  If I use the /compat/linux/
> > /usr/bin/gdb, it says the core file is in the wrong format:
> >
> > Couldn't fetch registers from core file: File in wrong format
> > Couldn't fetch register set 2 from core file: File in wrong format
> >
> > So what is the correct procedure for debugging Linux binaries?
> 
> Have you tried the Linux gdb?

IIRC, the Linux gdb doesn't grok our core files. I started an
implementation for our Linuxulator to dump Linux compatible core files
so that you could use the Linux gdb. I guess I lost what I had back
then.

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Marcel Moolenaar
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