[PATCH v2 0/3] Add FreeBSD/mips targets to GDB
Pedro Alves
palves@redhat.com
Fri Dec 16 12:50:00 GMT 2016
On 12/06/2016 09:00 PM, John Baldwin wrote:
> The first patch works around an issue where FreeBSD/mips core
> dumps from the kernel include an empty ei_flags value in the ELF
> header. This causes bfd to select the default MIPS architecture
> (bfd_mach_3000) even though it is a 64-bit core file. As a result,
> parsing the core dump notes doesn't work correctly since bits_per_word
> is 32. It's not clear to me if bfd shouldn't default to a 64-bit
> MIPS machine if the ELF header indicates a 64-bit class instead of
> this change?
>
> Changes since the first version are to address most (but perhaps not
> all) of the feedback from Luis Machado on patches 2 and 3.
The GDB changes are OK (once you've addressed the latest minor nits).
Thanks for the patches, and thanks Luis for reviewing this.
New targets/hosts deserve a gdb/NEWS entry. Can you write one?
Thanks,
Pedro Alves
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