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Re: [PATCH] fix BFD's core support on FreeBSD 4.[2-9]

From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
To: obrien at FreeBSD dot org
Cc: GNU Binutils mailing list <binutils at sources dot redhat dot com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 12:48:25 -0500
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix BFD's core support on FreeBSD 4.[2-9]
References: <20020131090234.A97584@dragon.nuxi.com> <3C597A65.1000702@cygnus.com> <20020131092424.D97826@dragon.nuxi.com>

> On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 12:09:57PM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> 
>> > This patch is needed by GDB to properly configure and build on FreeBSD
>> > 4.2 and later.
> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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?
> 
> 
> Beyond my judgment.  But what do you think about my patch?


Beyond my judgement :-)  Looks like this is how BFD does things.

It caught my eye as I think GDB should be able to read any core file 
from a given OS.  There appears to be a limitation in BFD here.

enjoy,
Andrew

References:
- [PATCH] fix BFD's core support on FreeBSD 4.[2-9]
  - From: David O'Brien
- Re: [PATCH] fix BFD's core support on FreeBSD 4.[2-9]
  - From: Andrew Cagney
- Re: [PATCH] fix BFD's core support on FreeBSD 4.[2-9]
  - From: David O'Brien

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