[PATCH] Support gzip compressed exec and core files in gdb

Mike Frysinger vapier@gentoo.org
Wed Mar 11 20:18:00 GMT 2015


On 11 Mar 2015 12:55, Michael Eager wrote:
> On 03/11/15 09:15, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > I agree with Mike that it's better to use library functions for
> > creating temporary files, since that hides platform dependencies.
> 
> The code uses mkstemp() to create a temporary file.  Is there a
> GDB or BFD wrapper for this function?

if you're worried about portability, gdb uses gnulib now, so it should be easy 
to import a gnulib module that provides that func as a fallback
-mike
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