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Re: [mea@nada.kth.se: AIX 4.3.2 new library and coredump format]
Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com> writes:
> Thanks for sending the patches. The look basically OK, but still need
> some work.
>
> I didn't look at every line, but:
>
> * The formatting does not follow the GNU standard, and must be fixed.
Will do... My finalls are over for this semester now, so I'll
hopefully have more time than I had the last month.:)
> * I don't understand the new code in rs6000coff_core_p. It appears to
> only read the new format if it can not read sizeof (struct
> core_dump) bytes from the file. That seems unlikely, so I don't
> understand how this code could work at all.
Neither do I.:) I must have done some silly misstake between the last
time I tested it and when I sent the patch...
> * The archive code appears to have been modified to always generate
> big archive files, which will presumably break the native tools on
> older versions of AIX. This needs to be fixed.
Ok, I'll look at it as well.
> I believe these patches are large enough to require a gdb or binutils
> copyright assignment.
Uhmmm, can I avoid that by saying that I don't believe so? :-) If not,
how do I make a proper copyright assignment?
Regards,
/Johanna