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Re: ping: [testsuite patch] for: [PATCH] [PR corefiles/17808] i386: Fix internal error when prstatus in core file is too big
- From: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- To: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, Andreas Arnez <arnez at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 12:56:45 +0000
- Subject: Re: ping: [testsuite patch] for: [PATCH] [PR corefiles/17808] i386: Fix internal error when prstatus in core file is too big
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On 02/14/2015 03:12 PM, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Feb 2015 10:47:49 +0100, Pedro Alves wrote:
>> It's not obvious to me why is the file uuencoded. What's the
>> reason for that?
>
> I do not find it convenient to check in a binary, while GIT can handle that
> diff+patch do not.
>
> If you prefer a different encoding method I do not mind.
I'd rather just not uuencode the binary, dropping the dependency
on uudecode.
I think this is the first time we're adding a binary core dump
to the testsuite. I think elfutils (a GPLv3 project)
just puts test core binaries directly in git, right?
Thanks,
Pedro Alves