Re: [commit/AIX] Fix error when loading core file

["Ulrich Weigand" <uweigand@de.ibm.com>]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 10:00:30PM +0200, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
> > Hmmm, I'm not sure how this would work for core files.  It looks like
> > solib-target would work only for targets that provide
> > to_get_shared_libraries -- are you suggesting to implement that for
> > the core file target?  I guess that would be a gdbarch callback to
> > implement the AIX-specific handling?
> 
> Right - that's exactly what I meant.  Except that I'm thinking now
> that I made a mistake; I could have added a target object instead,
> and then we could use a gdbarch method to implement that target object
> based on a core file.  That's why I haven't followed up on the patch
> yet; I'm going to try re-working it when I get back from vacation.

Sounds good, I think this would indeed work for the AIX case as well.

> As to what the contents of the target object should be, I'm not sure.
> The easiest choice would be the same as the remote protocol format,
> e.g. "Name:HEXSTR,TextSeg=ADDR;Name:HEXSTR,TextSeg=Addr".  The other
> alternative would be XML in case we think any flexibility would be
> needed.  The nice thing about that is it avoids having to hex-encode
> the name; we can XML-escape it instead, which is easier in common
> cases.  Now that we have a nicely simple XML parsing infrastructure I
> like to take advantage of it.

Do we also have infrastructure to *generate* XML?  We have to create
those contents in GDB (at least for the core file and AIX native
target cases).

Bye,
Ulrich

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  Dr. Ulrich Weigand
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