Adding cross support for core files

Hans-Peter Nilsson hans-peter.nilsson@axis.com
Wed Oct 31 22:06:00 GMT 2001


Executive summary: I was blind.

> Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 00:43:17 -0500
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>


> > PS.  It won't be ready this week.
> 
> Yes, it will :)

Thanks!  ;-)

> Why do you need trad-core.c?

I guess I don't.  I only noticed that bfd_elf32_object_p rejects
cores, forgot to look closer at the elf stuff but saw stuff for
m68k-linux and i386-linux in bfd/configure.in using
host-specific stuff and trad-core.c.  In hindsight it looked
suspicious arcane, though.

> That is not for ELF cores.  Does CRIS
> dump in a.out?

No.

> For ELF cores, if you search the list archive, you'll see that I
> implemented both BFD and GDB support for a large number of Linux cross
> core targets.  The framework's there; see the *_grok_* in elf32-mips.c
> for an example implementation.

Great!

brgds, H-P



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