Question about ELF core file sections

[Randolph Chung]

I'm trying to get core file support working on hppa64-hp-hpux11.11. I'm 
trying to reuse the infrastructure from corelow.c and the "new" 
regset_from_core_section() interface, but I'm a bit confused about how 
it's supposed to work.

corelow.c:get_core_registers() is hardcoded to look for registers in 
sections ".reg", ".reg2", ".reg-xfp" -- are these section names somehow 
standard? I don't find these documented in the ELF specs. I see that on 
Linux variants, this ".reg" section is actually synthesized by bfd. This 
all seems to be a bit convoluted :(

On HPUX, there is a program header type HP_CORE_PROC that points to a 
datastructure with the register info. Is there anyway to use the 
existing interface to get to this info? If not, it looks like I can get 
it to work using core_vec, but that uses an interface that is marked 
deprecated....

Any hints and help appreciated...

randolph