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From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: Kamil Rytarowski <n54@gmx.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org,  jhb@FreeBSD.org,  tom@tromey.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] gdb: Implement native dumpcore function
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2020 10:23:50 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mu39njs9.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200728154602.3824-1-n54@gmx.com> (Kamil Rytarowski's message of "Tue, 28 Jul 2020 17:46:01 +0200")

>>>>> "Kamil" == Kamil Rytarowski <n54@gmx.com> writes:

Kamil> Add new API for systems with native kernel support for dumping
Kamil> a process on demand. Wire it into the gdb's gcore functionality.

Kamil> gdb/ChangeLog:

Kamil>        * target.h (supports_native_dumpcore, native_dumpcore): New
Kamil>        function declarations.
Kamil>        * target.c (supports_native_dumpcore, native_dumpcore): New
Kamil>        functions.
Kamil>        * target-delegates.c: Rebuild.
Kamil>        * gcore.c (gcore_command): Use target_supports_native_dumpcore ()
Kamil>        and target_native_dumpcore ().

Thank you for the patch.

Kamil> +    /* Generate the core file with native target API.  */
Kamil> +    virtual bool dumpcore (const char *filename)
Kamil> +      TARGET_DEFAULT_RETURN (false);

There doesn't seem to be a reason to have a bool return here.
The value isn't documented or used.

Tom


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-08-05 16:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-27 14:43 [PATCH] " Kamil Rytarowski
2020-07-27 15:47 ` John Baldwin
2020-07-27 21:09 ` Tom Tromey
2020-07-28 15:46 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] " Kamil Rytarowski
2020-07-28 15:46   ` [PATCH v2 2/2] gdb: Implement native dumpcore function for NetBSD Kamil Rytarowski
2020-08-05 16:24     ` Tom Tromey
2020-08-13 17:16       ` Kamil Rytarowski
2020-07-28 18:56   ` [PATCH v2 1/2] gdb: Implement native dumpcore function Christian Biesinger
2020-07-28 20:39     ` Kamil Rytarowski
2020-07-29 15:45       ` Tom Tromey
2020-08-05 16:23   ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2020-08-13 17:15     ` Kamil Rytarowski

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