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

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com> writes:

> > 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?

Historically BFD only supports core files when compiled in native mode
(i.e., host == target), and it only supports the core file format used
on the particular host/target for which it is configured.

It would be entirely feasible to extend BFD to support multiple core
file formats.  Nobody has ever bothered to do that, probably because
nobody has ever run across a system which generates more than one
specific core file format.

Ian