Re: [PATCH] Support gzip compressed exec and core files in gdb

Alan Modra
2015-03-11T08:15:03Z

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 04:01:42PM -0700, Michael Eager wrote:
> This operation cannot be done completely by BFD because BFD allows an opened
> file to be passed to it for processing. GDB uses this functionality.

I'd prefer you do this entirely outside of BFD, without adding another
field to struct bfd. I think that can be done by simply clearing
abfd->cacheable on files you uncompress. This prevents BFD from
closing the file, so you won't need to open it again.

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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM