Re: Use elfcore_write_linux_prstatus in gdb

["H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 5:11 AM, Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 01/21/2016 12:25 PM, Pedro Alves wrote:
>> On 01/21/2016 09:28 AM, Alan Modra wrote:
>>> The gdb side.  Nothing fancy here, and no support for targets that
>>> need gdbarch_elfcore_write_linux_prstatus, mips n32, sparc64 if
>>> writing any of pr_{u,s,cu,cs}time, and probably x86-64 x32.
>>
>> Thanks a lot for doing all this!  I don't have spare cycles either to
>> drive this all the way to completion for all archs, I think we can still
>> move forward with it, by adding a stop-gap implementation those
>> archs, which just calls elfcore_write_prstatus.  I'll send it along
>> in a bit.
>
> Like this.  I've pushed this to the users/palves/core-prstatus-rework
> branch.  I've tested on x86_64 with:
>
>  make check RUNTESTFLAGS="--target_board unix/-m32" TESTS="*/*core*.exp"
>  make check RUNTESTFLAGS="--target_board unix/-m64" TESTS="*/*core*.exp"

It failed

 make check RUNTESTFLAGS="--target_board unix/-mx32" TESTS="*/*core*.exp"

Please take a look at bfd/hosts/x86-64linux.h to see how to dump core
x86-64.

Thanks.


H.J.