Miquel van Smoorenburg writes:
> You (Yves Arrouye) wrote:
> > GDB 4.15.1 (i486-linux), Copyright 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc...
> >
> > "0¨´
> > @/core": not in executable format: File format not recognized
> >
> > So there's a problem there. Do you have an idea about who is faulty? Gdb?
>
> As I understand it, the way you call gdb is
>
> gdb [executable] [its core file]
>
> preferrably with [executable] compiled with -g and linked statically
>
> I doubt that gdb can read core files without an accompanying executable..
You're right, sorry. It's
gdb [otheropts] [prog[core|procID]]
But the message is really misleading... It would ne nice if Gdb checked
wether the prog arg was a core first, and in this case tell that's the
case and remind usage. (Not that I ask that it does that: I should have
read the manual page, of course.)
Yves.
