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

Alan Modra amodra@gmail.com
Wed Mar 11 08:15:00 GMT 2015


On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 04:01:42PM -0700, Michael Eager wrote:
> This operation cannot be done completely by BFD because BFD allows an opened
> file to be passed to it for processing.  GDB uses this functionality.

I'd prefer you do this entirely outside of BFD, without adding another
field to struct bfd.  I think that can be done by simply clearing
abfd->cacheable on files you uncompress.  This prevents BFD from
closing the file, so you won't need to open it again.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM



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