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Re: core file format spec?
- To: law at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: core file format spec?
- From: Jim Blandy <jimb at cygnus dot com>
- Date: 18 Oct 1999 23:08:36 -0500
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <11253.940287845@upchuck.cygnus.com>
> > Where I can find the spec for the format of an x86 ELF core dump file?
> > I've looked in "System V Application Binary Interface: Intel386
> > Architecture Processor Supplement, Fourth Edition", and in "ABI+ for
> > Intel Architecture, Edition 3.0.1", but haven't seen anything.
> I go right into BFD to find this kind of thing :-) ;-)
Well, I was really asking two questions:
- What is the actual current practice? For this, BFD is fine; the
Linux kernel sources work, too.
- Where is the current practice specified? I would expect this to be
prime ABI supplement material, but...