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From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@redhat.com>,
	Mark Kettenis <kettenis@chello.nl>,
	gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [branch patch] core files as symfiles
Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 23:58:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EC429A4.1020906@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200305152219.h4FMJc812037@magilla.sf.frob.com>

>> Did we settle on this being the solution though?

Not as far as I know.

> I think the
>> /proc/PID/auxv approach is a bit cleaner. 

Yep.  More importantly it solves the general case.

> We're talking about core files, so what you mean is an NT_AUXV note that
> would give the same information that /proc/PID/auxv would give for a live
> process.  It remains to see whether the auxv approach will be accepted in
> the kernel.  

Perhaphs someone should find out.  What's the best mailing list?

> If that is done, then the corelow.c patch will be superfluous.

Right.  And I think both GDB and the Linux kernel will be the better for it.

Andrew



  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-15 23:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-12  9:47 [branch patch] dwarf-frame.c support for .eh_frame_hdr Roland McGrath
2003-05-13  3:27 ` Elena Zannoni
2003-05-13  3:42   ` Roland McGrath
2003-05-15 21:49 ` Mark Kettenis
2003-05-15 22:00   ` Elena Zannoni
2003-05-15 22:19     ` [branch patch] core files as symfiles Roland McGrath
2003-05-15 23:58       ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
2003-05-15 22:06   ` [branch patch] dwarf-frame.c support for .eh_frame_hdr Roland McGrath
2003-05-13  2:59 [branch patch] core files as symfiles Roland McGrath
2003-05-15 21:58 ` Mark Kettenis
2003-05-15 23:29   ` Daniel Jacobowitz

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