cross targeted gdb and corefiles

[Kevin "Squail" Endres]

ahh - so i need to find out what gregset_t and fpregset_t should be.... any
hits where to look??

:]k

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Buettner [mailto:kevinb@redhat.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 3:33 PM
To: Kevin "Squail" Endres; 'Kevin Buettner'; 'Daniel Jacobowitz';
Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: cross targeted gdb and corefiles


On May 16,  3:27pm, Kevin \Squail\ Endres wrote:

> Yep had just figured out to move the supply_* (and the nwfpe*) functions
> from arm-linux-nat.c to arm-linux-tdep.c. I did assume that the kernel
> headers needed to be from an arm configured kernel so i set the prefix to
> the root of my cross toolchain whemn i configured. 
> 
> everything builds but when i try to read an arm core i get a warning about
> the size of the gregset struct in the core (so possibly i am truly not
> including the correct headers??)

The trick is to not depend on the headers at all.

One way to do this is to define (in the tdep.c file) the necessary
structs entirely in terms of chars.  (This includes adding in any ABI
mandated padding between fields.)

Kevin