Re: [Fwd: gcore for netbsd]

[Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>]

Andrew Cagney wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> This patch has made me wonder why gcore even includes <sys/procfs.h>.

I'm guessing it went in before I split some code out into linux-proc.c.


> Can anyone think of a reason for not simply removing the include?
	
Try it and see...

> I'm also wondering what the function preempt_derive_stack_segment() is
> for.  I can't find any callers.

Probably for future use -- for systems where the default method didn't 
work, or where there was a more efficient method available.


>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Subject: gcore for netbsd
> Date: 16 Jul 2002 03:35:47 +0200
> From: Love <lha@stacken.kth.se>
> To: gdb@sources.redhat.com
> 
> Hi
> 
> I've added gcore support for netbsd, the core writing support need some
> more work (like adding more stuff to the elf notes in the netbsd core file)
> 
> One simple thing you can do for me is to protect the <sys/procfs.h> in
> gcore.c like its done in other files so its possible to include gcore.c on
> platforms that doesn't have <sys/procfs.h>.
> 
> Love
> 
> Index: gcore.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/gcore.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.5
> diff -u -u -w -r1.5 gcore.c
> --- gcore.c     12 Apr 2002 23:09:48 -0000      1.5
> +++ gcore.c     16 Jul 2002 01:30:03 -0000
> @@ -23,7 +23,9 @@
>  #include "inferior.h"
>  #include "gdbcore.h"
>  #include "elf-bfd.h"
> +#ifdef HAVE_SYS_PROCFS_H
>  #include <sys/procfs.h>
> +#endif
>  #include "symfile.h"
>  #include "objfiles.h"
>