From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
To: jan.kratochvil@redhat.com
Cc: mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl, gdb-patches@sourceware.org, palves@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [patchv4 1/2] Remove a.out NetBSD and OpenBSD hosta and targets
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 20:32:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201309232032.r8NKWOqB022880@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130922122646.GA2748@host2.jankratochvil.net> (message from Jan Kratochvil on Sun, 22 Sep 2013 14:26:46 +0200)
> Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 14:26:46 +0200
> From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> additionally I thought one can remove a.out support from *bsd-{nat,tdep}.c
> files. But then I found in sparcnbsd-tdep.c:
>
> /* OpenBSD uses the traditional NetBSD core file format, even for
> ports that use ELF. Therefore, if the default OS ABI is OpenBSD
> ELF, we return that instead of NetBSD a.out. This is mainly for
> the benfit of OpenBSD/sparc64, which inherits the sniffer below
> since we include this file for an OpenBSD/sparc64 target. For
> OpenBSD/sparc, the NetBSD a.out OS ABI is probably similar enough
> to both the OpenBSD a.out and the OpenBSD ELF OS ABI. */
> #if defined (GDB_OSABI_DEFAULT) && (GDB_OSABI_DEFAULT == GDB_OSABI_OPENBSD_ELF)
> #define GDB_OSABI_NETBSD_CORE GDB_OSABI_OPENBSD_ELF
> #else
> #define GDB_OSABI_NETBSD_CORE GDB_OSABI_NETBSD_AOUT
> #endif
>
> OTOH there is even code for ELF BSD core files. Still the patch
> would probably regress OpenBSD so just posting it here as is FYI
> without ChangeLog.
The switch of core files from traditional ("a.out") to ELF format in
OpenBSD was fairly recent, so I don't think it is time yet to do this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-23 20:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-19 20:02 [patch 1/2] Remove a.out NetBSD and OpenBSD targets Jan Kratochvil
2013-09-19 20:26 ` [patchv2 " Jan Kratochvil
2013-09-19 21:01 ` [patchv3 1/2] Remove a.out NetBSD and OpenBSD hosta and targets Jan Kratochvil
2013-09-20 7:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-20 7:47 ` Jan Kratochvil
2013-09-20 8:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-20 8:43 ` Pedro Alves
2013-09-21 13:13 ` [patchv4 " Jan Kratochvil
2013-09-22 12:26 ` Jan Kratochvil
2013-09-23 20:32 ` Mark Kettenis [this message]
2013-09-23 20:30 ` Mark Kettenis
2013-09-24 13:52 ` [commit] " Jan Kratochvil
2013-09-20 9:24 ` [patchv3 " Mark Kettenis
2013-09-20 7:40 ` [patchv2 1/2] Remove a.out NetBSD and OpenBSD targets Eli Zaretskii
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