[Fwd: gcore for netbsd]

Andrew Cagney ac131313@ges.redhat.com
Mon Aug 5 21:19:00 GMT 2002


> Andrew Cagney wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> This patch has made me wonder why gcore even includes <sys/procfs.h>.
> 
> 
> I'm guessing it went in before I split some code out into linux-proc.c.
> 
> 
> 
>> Can anyone think of a reason for not simply removing the include?
> 
> 	
> Try it and see...

Going going ....

>> I'm also wondering what the function preempt_derive_stack_segment() is
>> for.  I can't find any callers.
> 
> 
> Probably for future use -- for systems where the default method didn't 
> work, or where there was a more efficient method available.

It can't be a global though.  That is going to be very multi-arch / 
multi-target unfriendly.

Mind if that gets removed as well?  As it is, it is wrong.

Andrew


>>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 
>> Subject: gcore for netbsd
>> Date: 16 Jul 2002 03:35:47 +0200
>> From: Love <lha@stacken.kth.se>
>> To: gdb@sources.redhat.com
>> 
>> Hi
>> 
>> I've added gcore support for netbsd, the core writing support need some
>> more work (like adding more stuff to the elf notes in the netbsd core file)
>> 
>> One simple thing you can do for me is to protect the <sys/procfs.h> in
>> gcore.c like its done in other files so its possible to include gcore.c on
>> platforms that doesn't have <sys/procfs.h>.
>> 
>> Love
>> 
>> Index: gcore.c
>> ===================================================================
>> RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/gcore.c,v
>> retrieving revision 1.5
>> diff -u -u -w -r1.5 gcore.c
>> --- gcore.c     12 Apr 2002 23:09:48 -0000      1.5
>> +++ gcore.c     16 Jul 2002 01:30:03 -0000
>> @@ -23,7 +23,9 @@
>>  #include "inferior.h"
>>  #include "gdbcore.h"
>>  #include "elf-bfd.h"
>> +#ifdef HAVE_SYS_PROCFS_H
>>  #include <sys/procfs.h>
>> +#endif
>>  #include "symfile.h"
>>  #include "objfiles.h"
>>
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