From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8143 invoked by alias); 11 Aug 2003 03:11:10 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 8130 invoked from network); 11 Aug 2003 03:11:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (24.157.166.107) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 11 Aug 2003 03:11:02 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDD672B7F; Sun, 10 Aug 2003 23:10:59 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3F370943.4030407@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 03:11:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030223 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Kettenis Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [rfa] Add cross platform i386 corefile support References: <3F2A94B3.5080700@redhat.com> <3F2E9ABA.7000704@redhat.com> <3F350971.5020904@redhat.com> <200308102323.h7ANNGki089623@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-08/txt/msg00174.txt.bz2 > Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2003 10:47:13 -0400 > From: Andrew Cagney > > > Hello, > > > > The attached does to the i386 what MichaelL recently did to x86-64 - make the code that reads core files work cross platform. > > > > While this change is independant of the x86-64 change, it does work better when combined with that. > > > > i386 native showed no regressions. A cross GDB was able to read i386 native generated core files. > > > > Please note that gcore doesn't work cross though - problems in linux-proc.c. I've filed a bug report. > > > > ok? > > 6.0? > > Mark, how does this revision look? > > This is a step into the direction that I was heading for. However, I > was envisioning a somewhat more generic approach, suitable for all > i386 ELF targets. I wasn't planning on having that support in 6.0 > though. Would you mind if I keep your patch around until I implement > that approach? Will you fix the gcore bug :-)