Re: [PATCH] add-symbol-file-from-memory command

Elena Zannoni
2003-10-03T22:19:54Z

Jim Blandy writes:
>
> Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> writes:
> > I posted this originally back in May, and got no response whatsoever. I've
> > updated the patch to work with current mainline gdb and tested it again. I
> > hope there will be some response this time. This new user command is not
> > important, but this code needs review as it will form part of the support
> > for backtraces from system calls to work on Linux 2.6 kernels.
>
> This is important thing to get right; I'm sorry it wasn't reviewed
> promptly back in May.
>

The reason being that there was no agreement on the prerequisites,
i.e. how to "do it right". There was no decision yet from the kernel
people either.

See also the binutils discussion about the bfd function.

elena