Re: cross targeted gdb and corefiles

[Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>]

On May 16,  3:27pm, Kevin \Squail\ Endres wrote:

> Yep had just figured out to move the supply_* (and the nwfpe*) functions
> from arm-linux-nat.c to arm-linux-tdep.c. I did assume that the kernel
> headers needed to be from an arm configured kernel so i set the prefix to
> the root of my cross toolchain whemn i configured. 
> 
> everything builds but when i try to read an arm core i get a warning about
> the size of the gregset struct in the core (so possibly i am truly not
> including the correct headers??)

The trick is to not depend on the headers at all.

One way to do this is to define (in the tdep.c file) the necessary
structs entirely in terms of chars.  (This includes adding in any ABI
mandated padding between fields.)

Kevin