GDB record patch 0.1.3.1 for GDB-6.8 release
Daniel Jacobowitz
drow@false.org
Tue May 20 06:38:00 GMT 2008
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 06:19:15PM -0300, Thiago Jung Bauermann wrote:
> I wonder if there is a way to get these sizes by including the Linux
> kernel header files? The way it is done here looks very fragile and tied
> to a specific Linux kernel version to me...
>
> Granted, using kernel includes will still be fragile and
> version-specific, but at least to update GDB only a recompile is needed,
> as oposed to manually figuring out and editing these #defines.
No, this way is better. These are not types used internally by the
kernel; they're part of its public interface and will not change.
And the headers are in good shape nowadays but the clean headers are
not universally available yet.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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