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Re: [PATCH] fix BFD's core support on FreeBSD 4.[2-9]
> Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com> writes:
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>> > This patch is needed by GDB to properly configure and build on FreeBSD
>> > 4.2 and later.
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>> Hmm, there an underlying problem with BFD here? To me it looks wrong
>> to be deciding which core file support will be included using
>> configure.in. Shouldn't support for all possible core files be
>> included?
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> Historically BFD only supports core files when compiled in native mode
> (i.e., host == target), and it only supports the core file format used
> on the particular host/target for which it is configured.
Ah, yes. Historically, GDB only supported core files, shared libraries,
threads and a single ISA/ABI when native. Both BFD and GDB are charting
new territory here.
> It would be entirely feasible to extend BFD to support multiple core
> file formats. Nobody has ever bothered to do that, probably because
> nobody has ever run across a system which generates more than one
> specific core file format.
Ok. Yes.
Andrew