Re: [PATCH] Fix crash when loading a core with unexpected register section size

[Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>]

On 01/26/2017 02:31 PM, Antoine Tremblay wrote:
> 
> Pedro Alves writes:
> 
>> On 01/26/2017 01:54 PM, Antoine Tremblay wrote:
>>>
>>> Pedro Alves writes:
>>>
>>>> On 01/26/2017 01:17 PM, Antoine Tremblay wrote:
>>>>> When loading a core without an executable like so:
>>>>> gdb --core core for example often the gdbarch won't contain the
>>>>> iterate_over_regset_sections method.
>>>>
>>>> Can you give an example?  That'd help a lot understand the issue
>>>> better.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I can't share the core that I have that reproduced this :( 
>>
>> I meant an example gdbarch.  It sounded like this would
>> happen with any core with that architecture?
> 
> Ho yes, see v2, I added "For example arch-arm." Like you suggested.

Eh, "arch-" in "arch-foo" was just meant to show I was talking
about an arch.  I didn't mean for you to keep the "arch-" part.  :-)

So basically, we could have a testcase that dumps a file, and then
loads with back with no executable loaded?  Do we really not
have such a testcase yet?

Thanks,
Pedro Alves