On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 06:44:26PM -0700, Tony Lin wrote: > I've pretty much concluded the gdb is not at fault. Loading a coredump > generated by another mips-linux system, it was able to read the > registers correctly and lookup the program counter. > > So the problem now is my 32-bit mips-linux is generating core files in > a different format than what gdb expects. I've been digging into > fs/exec.c and fs/binfmt_elf.c without much success. Are there > documents describing the expected coredump header format? No. But... > I'm not really familiar with the register terminology (fpu? xfpregs?) > so am having some trouble figuring out where linux write the program > counter into the core dump. Take a look at asm-mips/elf.h and IIRC arch/mips/kernel/process.c. Or, trace the macros through binfmt_elf.c, where it creates NOTE sections. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery
