From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 21 19:07:43 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EB3F16A4CE; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 19:07:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from canning.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3822C43D2D; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 19:07:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from fw.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by canning.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 146092A7EA; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 11:07:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from overcee.wemm.org (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by fw.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98688E2B3; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 11:07:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from overcee.wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.wemm.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id iALJ7gJF038853; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 11:07:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by overcee.wemm.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id iALJ7fYV038852; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 11:07:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Authentication-Warning: overcee.wemm.org: peter set sender to peter@wemm.org using -f From: Peter Wemm To: David Schultz Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 11:07:40 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <200411200232.iAK2W4KS001459@repoman.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200411200232.iAK2W4KS001459@repoman.freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200411211107.41364.peter@wemm.org> cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org cc: src-committers@freebsd.org cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/compat/pecoff imgact_pecoff.c src/sys/i386/linux linux_sysvec.c src/sys/kern imgact_aout.c X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 19:07:43 -0000 On Friday 19 November 2004 06:32 pm, David Schultz wrote: > Modified files: > sys/compat/pecoff imgact_pecoff.c > sys/i386/linux linux_sysvec.c > sys/kern imgact_aout.c > Log: > Maintain the broken state of backwards compatibilty for a.out (and > PECOFF!) core dumps. None of the old versions of gdb I tried were > able to read a.out core dumps before or after this change. I think we should remove the broken core support entirely from these files. PECOFF core dump support was a case of cut/pasting the easiest one to duplicate. I don't recall gdb ever having a.out coredump support attached to pecoff executables. It was just a checklist item. -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5