From: Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: binutils@sources.redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [BFD PATCH] grok NT_AUXV note in ELF core files
Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 11:14:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030520111203.GE3914@bubble.sa.bigpond.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200305192146.h4JLku707345@magilla.sf.frob.com>
On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 02:46:56PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> This patch makes BFD reading of ELF core files fake a section called
> ".auxv" for an NT_AUXV note, similar to the fake ".reg" section make for
> the note containing register data. It also adds data structures to
> include/elf/ for interpreting the contents of such sections, analogous to
> the translated forms of other ELF data structures. Nothing uses these
> formats as yet, but gdb may begin to. The format layouts are generic ELF.
>
> Approved to commit?
Looks OK.
> + sect->alignment_power = 1 + BFD_ARCH_SIZE / 32;
Except that BFD_ARCH_SIZE is fairly useless. See the comment in
bfd-in2.h. BFD_DEFAULT_TARGET_SIZE might be better.
--
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre
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2003-05-19 21:46 Roland McGrath
2003-05-20 11:14 ` Alan Modra [this message]
2003-05-21 0:58 ` Roland McGrath
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