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Re: new core files
- To: Egor Duda <deo@logos-m.ru>
- Subject: Re: new core files
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 12:53:51 -0400
- Cc: cygwin-developers <cygwin-developers@sourceware.cygnus.com>
- References: <13867.990510@logos-m.ru>
On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 08:48:38PM +0400, Egor Duda wrote:
>Hi!
>
>May 8 1999, Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> wrote:
>
> CF> I should point out that the subject of core dumps was recently raised
> CF> in some gdb discusions. There seems to be a general consensus that
> CF> for targets, like cygwin, which don't support a native core dump
> CF> format, that the target should use the ELF core dump format. It seems
> CF> to be the most flexible format for this type of thing.
>
>I've tried to do it using bfd. It works ok, i've only needed to add
>new note section type to store CONTEXT structure and function to bfd
>code to pass it to gdb. But it makes cygwin (not cygwin1.dll itself,
>but "core-dumper" tool) dependent on bfd. is it ok?
That should be fine. I have no problem with making a cygwin tool dependent
on bfd.
I am amazed that you're proceeding so quickly on this!
-chris