From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@delorie.com>
To: jtc@redback.com
Cc: taylor@cygnus.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com, sandmann@clio.rice.edu, djgpp-workers@delorie.com
Subject: Re: Adding support for core files to DJGPP
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 01:43:00 -0000
Message-id: <200103310943.EAA16316@indy.delorie.com>
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X-SW-Source: 2001-03/msg00334.html

> From: jtc@redback.com (J.T. Conklin)
> Date: 30 Mar 2001 11:43:59 -0800
> 
> For a host environment like DJGPP, I agree with the recommendation for
> ELF crash dumps.  
> 
> However, I wanted to mention that for embedded environments, it may be
> better to use a custom crash dump format.  One requirement I had was I
> had to write dumps to streaming media (in other words, no seeks).  I
> suspect I could have written ELF dumps by doing two passes over the
> system (one to compute the offsets, another to write the dump), it was
> simpler to use a format designed for streaming from the get go.

Is there any place one can see the code or docs of what you've
written?