From: DJ Delorie Subject: Re: GDB can't read core files 08 Jan 1999 11:18:25 -0500 Message-ID: <36962FD1.27DF4F3D@delorie.com> References: <3695F057 DOT A1A11774 DOT cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cityweb DOT de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.1.126 i586) X-Accept-Language: en Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > the gdb, shipped with full.exe, refuses, to read core files, > produced on my machine. Is it possible, that this happens, > because I configured cygwin1.dll with i686-pc-cygwin instead > of i586-pc-cygwin??? No, it's probably because cygwin uses the term "core files" to mean something different than what gdb is expecting. There isn't enough information in the text files called "*.CORE" that cygwin produces to allow gdb to replicate the failure environment.