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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: drow@false.org
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: core regs vs. proc-service regs mess
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 07:07:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060405.000621.41243752.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)


In trying to get core files working properly again on Linux/Sparc and
Daniel I now see the problems you referred to the other day.

What we have currently on Linux/Sparc is:

1) ptrace() interfaces have one layout for regsets
2) ELF core files store regsets in a different
   format

Now proc-service.c wants fill_gregset() et al. to
provide things in the ptrace() style layout, that is
what libthread_db expects under Linux.

But linux_nat_make_corefile_notes() expects the fill_gregset()
et al. to provide ELF core file format registers.

This is completely contradictory, and I don't have any idea how to
cleanly resolve this outside of duplicating the entirety of
linux_nat_make_corefile_notes() on Linux/Sparc which is silly.

Daniel any ideas? :-) Maybe we can have a "linux_tdep" struct where we
can place a "->to_fill_core_gregset()" type method or similar?


             reply	other threads:[~2006-04-05  7:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-05  7:07 David S. Miller [this message]
2006-04-05  8:25 ` Mark Kettenis
2006-04-05 13:23   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-04-06  1:10     ` David S. Miller
2006-04-06 13:15     ` David S. Miller
2006-04-06 13:38       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-04-07  0:35         ` David S. Miller

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