From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14764 invoked by alias); 17 Feb 2015 12:56:52 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 14746 invoked by uid 89); 17 Feb 2015 12:56:51 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Tue, 17 Feb 2015 12:56:51 +0000 Received: from int-mx13.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx13.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.26]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t1HCulpO008922 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=FAIL); Tue, 17 Feb 2015 07:56:47 -0500 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.ams2.redhat.com [10.39.146.11]) by int-mx13.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t1HCujBR017578; Tue, 17 Feb 2015 07:56:46 -0500 Message-ID: <54E33A8D.80504@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 12:56:00 -0000 From: Pedro Alves User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Kratochvil CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Andreas Arnez Subject: Re: ping: [testsuite patch] for: [PATCH] [PR corefiles/17808] i386: Fix internal error when prstatus in core file is too big References: <874ms18cyz.fsf@br87z6lw.de.ibm.com> <20150108164327.GA29029@host2.jankratochvil.net> <20150205073758.GA25305@host1.jankratochvil.net> <54D33C45.4010706@redhat.com> <20150214151231.GA29106@host1.jankratochvil.net> In-Reply-To: <20150214151231.GA29106@host1.jankratochvil.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2015-02/txt/msg00435.txt.bz2 On 02/14/2015 03:12 PM, Jan Kratochvil wrote: > On Thu, 05 Feb 2015 10:47:49 +0100, Pedro Alves wrote: >> It's not obvious to me why is the file uuencoded. What's the >> reason for that? > > I do not find it convenient to check in a binary, while GIT can handle that > diff+patch do not. > > If you prefer a different encoding method I do not mind. I'd rather just not uuencode the binary, dropping the dependency on uudecode. I think this is the first time we're adding a binary core dump to the testsuite. I think elfutils (a GPLv3 project) just puts test core binaries directly in git, right? Thanks, Pedro Alves