Re: arm core analysis on x86 host

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 09:08:05AM -0500, Jon Ringle wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 March 2005 13:01, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> > The core file should somehow be tagged as Linux.  If it is not tagged
> > as such, how are we going to interpret it?  The fact that it is an ELF
> > core file, and has notes like NT_PRSTATUS does not tell us where each
> > register is stored.  Right now we have to guess what the layout of
> > these notes is based on the size of the sections or because the header
> > describing the layout is available because we're building a native
> > GDB.
> 
> I modified my linux kernel (based on 2.2.16) in linux/fs/binfmt_elf.c to emit:
> 	elf.e_ident[EI_OSABI] = ELFOSABI_LINUX;
> The linux-2.6 series does this.
> 
> This seemed to help in conjuction with changes to gdb/arm-linux-tdep.c to add:
> set_gdbarch_regset_from_core_section(gdbarch,arm_linux_regset_from_core_section);
> 
> I can send in a patch for the arm-linux-tdep.c changes if you'd like.

It doesn't look like you have a copyright assignment on file - is that
right?  In that case, give me a couple of days; once my current ARM
patch is finished, I can look into doing this myself based on our
conversation.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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