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Question about ELF core file sections
- From: Randolph Chung <randolph at tausq dot org>
- To: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 23:43:48 +0800
- Subject: Question about ELF core file sections
I'm trying to get core file support working on hppa64-hp-hpux11.11. I'm
trying to reuse the infrastructure from corelow.c and the "new"
regset_from_core_section() interface, but I'm a bit confused about how
it's supposed to work.
corelow.c:get_core_registers() is hardcoded to look for registers in
sections ".reg", ".reg2", ".reg-xfp" -- are these section names somehow
standard? I don't find these documented in the ELF specs. I see that on
Linux variants, this ".reg" section is actually synthesized by bfd. This
all seems to be a bit convoluted :(
On HPUX, there is a program header type HP_CORE_PROC that points to a
datastructure with the register info. Is there anyway to use the
existing interface to get to this info? If not, it looks like I can get
it to work using core_vec, but that uses an interface that is marked
deprecated....
Any hints and help appreciated...
randolph