Re: [hppa-hpux] Core file support for hppa64-hp-hpux11.11

[Randolph Chung <randolph at tausq dot org>]

> Ok, so your problem is that the core file is marked as "UNIX - System
> V", so there's no way to tell that this is a HP-UX core file.

Yes.

> What I'd do, is create BFD sections out of those HP_CORE_XXX program
> headers, and then in GDB, check for one of those sections.  There's
> one program header that looks particularly promising: HP_CORE_KERNEL.
> That one contains the string HP-UX.  That'd certainly convince me that
> this is a HP-UX core file.

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> Actually I think it makes sense to modify your BFD patch such that it
> gives all HP_CORE_XXX program headers a sensible name:

Sure, I'll do that.

So basically you want:
1) BFD to name the HP_CORE_KERNEL phdr as a "core.kernel" section
2) GDB in its OSABI sniffer will look for this section and check that 
its contents contains "HP-UX"

right?

randolph