Re: gdb gets confused with o32 core files, WANT_COMPAT_REG_H needed?

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 05:08:20PM -0400, Dave Johnson wrote:
> 
> I've been trying to fix core file support for 64bit kernel with o32
> userspace (working against 2.6.12 cvs tag).
> 
> After applying the patch posted on 13 Feb 2005 from Daniel Jacobowitz
> to fix binfmt_elfo32.c (any reason this didn't make it into CVS?),
> I still ran into trouble with gdb not understanding the NT_PRSTATUS
> header in the core file.
> 
> While Dan's fix makes the kernel use elf32 definitions, gdb was still
> getting confused by pr_reg contained in the core file.
> 
> Dan's definition of ELF_CORE_COPY_REGS in binfmt_elfo32.c is copying
> the registers using EF_R0 as 0 not 6 producing results into offset 0
> through 37 not 6 through 43 as gdb expects for 32bit core files.
> 
> Below patch (applied after Dan's patch) writes the registers at offset
> 6 making gdb much happier.

FYI, this has all been rearranged since - it did this correctly at the
time.  I don't know why the patch was dropped.


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