[PATCH 0/5] Handle FreeBSD's NT_X86_SEGBASES core dump note

[Alan Modra]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 01:56:11PM -0700, John Baldwin wrote:
> This core dump note contains the value of the %fsbase and %gsbase
> registers (or on i386 the base address of the respective segments).
> This is used to resolve the address of TLS variables in core dumps.
> 
> John Baldwin (5):
>   elfcore_grok_freebsd_note: Remove checks of note->namesz.
>   Recognize FreeBSD core dump note for x86 segment base registers.
>   Use pseudosections for NT_FREEBSD_X86_SEGBASES core dump notes.
>   FreeBSD/x86: Read segment base registers from NT_X86_SEGBASES.
>   Use I386_GSBASE_REGNUM in i386fbsd_get_thread_local_address.
> 
>  bfd/ChangeLog         | 13 +++++++++++++
>  bfd/elf-bfd.h         |  2 ++
>  bfd/elf.c             | 24 ++++++++++++++++--------
>  binutils/ChangeLog    |  5 +++++
>  binutils/readelf.c    |  2 ++
>  gdb/amd64-fbsd-tdep.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
>  gdb/i386-fbsd-tdep.c  | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  include/ChangeLog     |  4 ++++
>  include/elf/common.h  |  1 +
>  9 files changed, 81 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

The binutils part of this series is fine.

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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM