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From: "Nimrod A. Abing" <n_abing AT ns DOT roxas-online DOT net DOT ph>
Subject: Re: dpmiexcp.c with core dumping
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At 12:35 PM 03/28/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>
>> Could you or someone else please post a list of issues that need to be
>> solved/figured out in order to add core file support to GDB?  The info
>
>I don't know the gdb side, but the key is that bfd needs to be able to
>read the core file.
>
>> In particular, I don't really understand why does the core file needs
>> to be COFF.
>
>It can be anything, as long as bfd and gdb can use it.

PMDBCD it is then?

I've been reading the BFD docs and I've managed to grok a few important
things in the process. All one has to do to enable BFD to read another
binary file format is to write backend functions that can read the format
and include it with the BFD library. This has to be done by the one working
on the GDB/BFD side. Sound simple enough, eh?

But I guess writing an API to read the current format would be simpler as
Eli suggests. Unless one would really want to debug a DJGPP program using a
GDB for Linux, All I've to do now is restructure the core file to suit the
BFD structure.


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