From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20551 invoked by alias); 9 Jan 2002 20:43:39 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 20501 invoked from network); 9 Jan 2002 20:43:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cygnus.com) (205.180.230.5) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 9 Jan 2002 20:43:32 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (reddwarf.cygnus.com [205.180.231.12]) by runyon.cygnus.com (8.8.7-cygnus/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA14726; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 12:43:19 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3C3CAA36.DDFDD12C@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 12:43:00 -0000 From: Michael Snyder Organization: Red Hat, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2smp i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com CC: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: GDB arm-netbsd build failure. References: <200201091944.TAA22678@cam-mail2.cambridge.arm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-01/txt/msg00067.txt.bz2 Richard Earnshaw wrote: > > Michael, > > Your latest patch > > 2002-01-03 Michael Snyder > > Implement a "generate-core-file" command in gdb, save target state. > > breaks any target that doesn't use ELF, since it calls a BFD function that > is only compiled in for ELF support. > > Specifically, it directly uses elfcore_write_prpsinfo which is in bfd/elf.c > > Isn't there supposed to be a way of wrapping such calls through a BFD > layer to make them format independent. If not, then this call should only > be made if we know that we are using ELF. Yes, I checked in a fix for that this morning. If you update and it still doesn't work, please let me know.