[RFC][PATCH 0/3] readelf and libbfd: Add Extended Numbering Support for ELF

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com> writes:

> It's mainly, as he wrote later, for core files.  I'm surprised you
> haven't complained about this limitation yourself :-)  If your thread
> stacks were allocated with guard pages, a core dump with over 64k threads
> should have over 64k segments.

That makes sense.

I should try dumping a core file with that many threads just to see
how gdb acts....

Ian