> It was probably more perturbing to have gdb say "I don't support
> core files on this architecture". Urgle...I spent close on 3-4
> weeks last fall trying bootstrap some elf tools for alpha... No... No
> No, he whimpered (as at least two level three earthquake tremors
> add to the noise in SF here this evening.....)

This is a ... quirk in GDB's core file recognition code.
(For some reason, it's not keen to take cores on the command line if
it's been configured to accept kernel core dumps (which currently
don't work, btw), and normal ones.

'target core corefile' will do it in gdb.


cgd