[PATCH] fix BFD's core support on FreeBSD 4.[2-9]

Andrew Cagney ac131313@cygnus.com
Thu Jan 31 10:11:00 GMT 2002


> On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 12:09:57PM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> 
>> > This patch is needed by GDB to properly configure and build on FreeBSD
>> > 4.2 and later.
> 
>> 
>> 
>> Hmm, there an underlying problem with BFD here?  To me it looks wrong to 
>> be deciding which core file support will be included using configure.in. 
>> Shouldn't support for all possible core files be included?
> 
> 
> Beyond my judgment.  But what do you think about my patch?


Beyond my judgement :-)  Looks like this is how BFD does things.

It caught my eye as I think GDB should be able to read any core file 
from a given OS.  There appears to be a limitation in BFD here.

enjoy,
Andrew



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