Re: ping: [testsuite patch] for: [PATCH] [PR corefiles/17808] i386: Fix internal error when prstatus in core file is too big

Pedro Alves
2015-02-17T12:56:52Z

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