Eventually, gdb will be able to read gzipped cores directly.

  I wish we implemented compressed core by compressing only 
portions of the core instead the whole file. For example, we 
could have compressed only memory dump; the other 
information does not take a lot of space and it would allow 
existing tools (readelf etc) to read basic information on 
the core without having to decompress the file or change the 
tools.




Colin Burgess wrote:
> That WOULD be nice.  But isn't this a function of gdb?
> 
> Mario Charest wrote:
>> Given that dumper can created compressed core file (.gz) it would be nice if the ID could read them directly.
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