From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14614 invoked by alias); 5 Dec 2003 04:30:21 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 14602 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2003 04:30:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO zenia.home) (12.223.225.216) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 5 Dec 2003 04:30:21 -0000 Received: by zenia.home (Postfix, from userid 5433) id 410AE207A2; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 23:28:44 -0500 (EST) To: Ulrich Weigand Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, uweigand@de.ibm.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] S/390 port modernization 1/4 References: <200312042211.XAA07877@faui1d.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> From: Jim Blandy Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 04:30:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <200312042211.XAA07877@faui1d.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2003-12/txt/msg00193.txt.bz2 Ulrich Weigand writes: > Jim Blandy wrote: > > > The regset_from_core_section stuff is done exactly the way the i386 > > and x86-64 do it, so I won't criticize it. But there are two things I > > wonder about: > > > > - Since core file formats are really OS-specific (ABI's often don't > > specify them), wouldn't it make more sense for the *-nat.c file to > > register an OS/ABI handler, and have that handler register the > > regset_from_core_section method? > > Defining the core file format in *-nat.c would mean that a cross-gdb > wouldn't understand core files, right? I think you're right. I guess that answers my question.