Re: arm core analysis on x86 host

[Jon Ringle <jon.ringle@comdial.com>]

On Tuesday 29 March 2005 11:33, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 11:13:53AM -0500, Jon Ringle wrote:
> > On Monday 28 March 2005 23:58, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > > Look harder :-)  sniff_core_bfd is disabled if you provide the new
> > > mechanism.  It should be all you need.
> >
> > I assume that you are refering to the test that is done at the beginning
> > of sniff_core_bfd():
> >   /* Don't sniff if we have support for register sets in CORE_GDBARCH. 
> > */ if (core_gdbarch && gdbarch_regset_from_core_section_p (core_gdbarch))
> > return NULL;
> >
> > Howerver, the value of core_gdbarch is not the same as the gdbarch that
> > was used for the set_gdbarch_regset_from_core_section() causing the test
> > to fail and fall through to the core_file_fns loop.
>
> The two being different is not a problem; however, the question is why
> they are so different that they do not both pass through wherever you
> are calling set_gdbarch_regset_from_core_section.
>
> At least two gdbarches will be constructed before the core file is
> opened, but you only show one call to
> set_gdbarch_regset_from_core_section.
>
> Where did you put it?

I put a call to set_gdbarch_regset_from_core_section at the end of 
arm_linux_init_abi(), just like ppc_linux_init_abi().