Re: [mea@nada.kth.se: AIX 4.3.2 new library and coredump format]

[Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>]

   Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 21:20:17 -0700
   From: Stan Shebs <shebs@cygnus.com>

   Here is a set of BFD patches that are a start on supporting AIX 4.3 in
   GDB.  Could someone please evaluate these and install if they're OK?
   The theory seems plausible, although upon reading these I realize that
   my BFD-remembering neurons must be dying off...

   To: gdb-patches@cygnus.com
   Subject: AIX 4.3.2 new library and coredump format
   From: Johanna Svenningsson <mea@nada.kth.se>
   Date: 27 Mar 1999 06:14:58 +0200

Thanks for sending the patches.  The look basically OK, but still need
some work.

I didn't look at every line, but:

* The formatting does not follow the GNU standard, and must be fixed.

* I don't understand the new code in rs6000coff_core_p.  It appears to
  only read the new format if it can not read sizeof (struct
  core_dump) bytes from the file.  That seems unlikely, so I don't
  understand how this code could work at all.

* The archive code appears to have been modified to always generate
  big archive files, which will presumably break the native tools on
  older versions of AIX.  This needs to be fixed.

I believe these patches are large enough to require a gdb or binutils
copyright assignment.

Ian