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Re: Adding support for core files to DJGPP
- To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
- Subject: Re: Adding support for core files to DJGPP
- From: jtc at redback dot com (J.T. Conklin)
- Date: 30 Mar 2001 11:43:59 -0800
- Cc: taylor at cygnus dot com, gdb at sources dot redhat dot com,sandmann at clio dot rice dot edu, djgpp-workers at delorie dot com
- References: <200103301443.JAA24895@texas.cygnus.com><200103301534.KAA28533@indy.delorie.com>
- Reply-To: jtc at redback dot com
>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@delorie.com> writes:
>> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 09:43:39 -0500
>> From: David Taylor <taylor@cygnus.com>
>>
>> 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
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J.T. Conklin
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