Re: [patch] Support gcore for i386 inferiors on amd64

[Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>]

On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 00:54:55 +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 15:11:43 +0200
> > From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
...
> > currently "gcore" command creates invalid core file for i386
> > (32-bit) inferiors running on amd64 gdb/machine.


> > Patch mostly created by Fujitsu.
> 
> What's the copyright status of this diff?

It is provided as public domain / GPL compliant. No explicit license given this
time - I heard Fujitsu generally provides back patches without any problem.
Explicit license from Fujitsu upon request.


> I don't think the elfcore_write_xxx functions belong in the target
> vector.
...
> I think it is simpler to keep this Linux-specific (although Solaris probably
> needs something similar).

Patch updated, is it fine this way?
[ "glibc-procfs32.patch" has no changes. ]


> There are a few other problems with the code too, but I will nag about
> that later.

Looking forward.


Thanks,
Jan

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