[PATCH] Set architecture for NetBSD core files

[Matt Thomas]

At 03:18 PM 2/8/2004, Mark Kettenis wrote:
>It would make my life a lot easier if a netbsd-core BFD would have its
>architecture set.  The attached patch accomplishes this, at least for
>NetBSD/amd64, NetBSD/i386, NetBSD/sparc and NetBSD/sparc64 (and the
>corresponding OpenBSD variants).

Why?  netbsd-core.c is only used for the old a.out based core dump
format.  Under NetBSD, ELF executables produce ELF core dumps.
NetBSD/amd64 and NetBSD/sparc64 have *always* been ELF based.
NetBSD/i386 and  NetBSD/sparc have been ELF based for several years.
In fact, all NetBSD targets except ns32k use ELF.

>OK to check this in?  Or should I move the M_SPARC64_NETBSD and
>M_X86_64_NETBSD #defines to libaout.h?

IMO, no.  While I can see doing i386 and sparc, amd64 and sparc64 are
not needed.  But you should also include other former a.out targets
such as vax, m68k, ns32k, and arm.  (mips, alpha, and powerpc never
used a.out to significant degree).

[This is speaking as one of the NetBSD toolchain developers.]

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