From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jtc@redback.com (J.T. Conklin) To: Eli Zaretskii 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: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 11:44:00 -0000 Message-id: <5m3dbvca9s.fsf@jtc.redback.com> References: <200103301443.JAA24895@texas.cygnus.com> <200103301534.KAA28533@indy.delorie.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-03/msg00332.html >>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii writes: >> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 09:43:39 -0500 >> From: David Taylor >> >> If you are designing the core file format for DJGPP, I would recommend >> making it an ELF file. Eli> It sounds like that: you are the second person (out of two who Eli> replied) who suggested that. Thanks. 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. --jtc -- J.T. Conklin RedBack Networks