Re: [PATCH] Support gzip compressed exec and core files in gdb

Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-11T20:24:41Z

> Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 12:55:19 -0700
> From: Michael Eager <eager@eagerm.com>
> CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, binutils@sourceware.org
>
> > and mention neither /tmp nor $TMPDIR, as both are platform-dependent.
>
> I think it might be good to tell people how to specify where the
> uncompressed file is located.

Saying "system-wide temporary directory" does tell that, doesn't it?
Users of each platform know where that is, I think.

We could, of course, describe all the details for each supported
platform, but then the description needs to be much longer than what
you wrote. Is it really that important?

> The code uses mkstemp() to create a temporary file. Is there a
> GDB or BFD wrapper for this function?

Not that I know of. Why do you need a wrapper?