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authorTom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>2012-12-14 15:30:38 +0000
committerTom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>2012-12-14 15:30:38 +0000
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* NEWS: Mention "info proc" and core files. * corelow.c (core_info_proc): New function. (init_core_ops): Set to_info_proc. * gdbarch.c, gdbarch.h: Rebuild. * gdbarch.sh (core_info_proc): New method. * infcmd.c (info_proc_cmd_1): Invoke target_info_proc first. * linux-tdep.c (linux_core_info_proc_mappings) (linux_core_info_proc): New functions. (linux_find_memory_region_ftype): New typedef. (linux_find_memory_regions_full): New function, from linux_find_memory_regions. (struct linux_find_memory_regions_data): New. (linux_find_memory_regions_thunk): New function. (linux_find_memory_regions): Rewrite. (struct linux_make_mappings_data): New. (linux_make_mappings_callback) (linux_make_mappings_corefile_notes): New functions. (linux_make_corefile_notes): Call linux_make_mappings_corefile_notes. (linux_init_abi): Call set_gdbarch_core_info_proc. * target.c (target_info_proc): Return 'int'. * target.h (target_info_proc): Update. gdb/doc * gdb.texinfo (SVR4 Process Information): Mention core files. gdb/testsuite * gdb.base/info-proc.exp: Add core file tests. bfd * elf.c (elfcore_grok_note) <NT_FILE>: New case.
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+2012-12-14 Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
+
+ * gdb.texinfo (SVR4 Process Information): Mention core files.
+
2012-12-12 Mircea Gherzan <mircea.gherzan@intel.com>
* gdb.texinfo (GDB/MI Catchpoint Commands): New section.
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@@ -18649,13 +18649,17 @@ modern FreeBSD systems.
Many versions of SVR4 and compatible systems provide a facility called
@samp{/proc} that can be used to examine the image of a running
-process using file-system subroutines. If @value{GDBN} is configured
-for an operating system with this facility, the command @code{info
-proc} is available to report information about the process running
-your program, or about any process running on your system. @code{info
-proc} works only on SVR4 systems that include the @code{procfs} code.
-This includes, as of this writing, @sc{gnu}/Linux, OSF/1 (Digital
-Unix), Solaris, Irix, but not HP-UX, for example.
+process using file-system subroutines.
+
+If @value{GDBN} is configured for an operating system with this
+facility, the command @code{info proc} is available to report
+information about the process running your program, or about any
+process running on your system. This includes, as of this writing,
+@sc{gnu}/Linux, OSF/1 (Digital Unix), Solaris, and Irix, but
+not HP-UX, for example.
+
+This command may also work on core files that were created on a system
+that has the @samp{/proc} facility.
@table @code
@kindex info proc