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From: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>,
	gdb-patches@sourceware.org,        binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] Use the ELF class to determine the word size for FreeBSD core notes.
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 11:04:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a2766669-a187-5623-28cd-7672ba1b27d2@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161206210015.40422-2-jhb@FreeBSD.org>

Hi John,

> FreeBSD MIPS64 core dumps contain an empty e_flags value so are assigned
> to the default bfd_arch_mips which is 32-bits.

I am sorry, but I am worried about this patch breaking things for other,
non-MIPS targets.  Wouldn't it be easier to update bfd/elfxx-mips.c:_bfd_elf_mips_mach()
to test the EI_CLASS field if no flags are set.  Maybe by using the ABI_64_P macro ?

Cheers
  Nick


  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-13 11:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-06 21:01 [PATCH v2 0/3] Add FreeBSD/mips targets to GDB John Baldwin
2016-12-06 21:01 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] Add native target for FreeBSD/mips John Baldwin
2016-12-08 18:53   ` Luis Machado
2016-12-08 20:09     ` John Baldwin
2016-12-08 20:15       ` Luis Machado
2016-12-06 21:01 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] Add FreeBSD/mips architecture John Baldwin
2016-12-08 18:47   ` Luis Machado
2016-12-08 20:08     ` John Baldwin
2016-12-08 20:13       ` Luis Machado
2016-12-09 19:02         ` John Baldwin
2016-12-16 12:22   ` GDB attribution policy (Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] Add FreeBSD/mips architecture.) Pedro Alves
2017-01-10 16:19     ` Pedro Alves
2016-12-06 21:01 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] Use the ELF class to determine the word size for FreeBSD core notes John Baldwin
2016-12-13 11:04   ` Nick Clifton [this message]
2016-12-23 20:35     ` John Baldwin
2016-12-16 12:50 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] Add FreeBSD/mips targets to GDB Pedro Alves

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