A PPC patch for glibc 2.1

H.J. Lu hjl@lucon.org
Thu Dec 3 13:52:00 GMT 1998


> 
> > From: hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu)
> > Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 22:24:44 -0800 (PST)
> > Cc: libc-hacker@cygnus.com (GNU C Library)
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > This patch is needed by my upcoming gdb 4.17.0.6.
> 
> What's wrong with the existing files?  The following works fine for
> me in 2.0.104:
> 
> [geoffk@geoffk geoffk]$ cat > x.c
> #include <sys/types.h>
> #include <sys/user.h>
> #include <sys/procfs.h>
> [geoffk@geoffk geoffk]$ gcc x.c -c
> [geoffk@geoffk geoffk]$ 

Please add

#include <sys/ptrace.h>

to see what happens.

> Perhaps it would be better if you only defined the things you really
> needed.  But I can't see anything at all in this file that you should
> need!  They are all either stored in the core file, or don't seem to
> be particularly relevant to a debugger.  What have I missed?
> 

As far as I know, those files are used by gdb only. Noone else
should use them. I don't have a local PPC machine to find out
the minimum stuff gdb needs. If you want, I can make the gdb
4.17.0.6 patch available so that you can reduce the contents
of those to minimum.



-- 
H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)



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