From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Clifton To: Greg Lehey Cc: Aaron Schlesinger , binutils@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Binutils 2.11 and BSDI 4.2 - **BUG** Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 01:16:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <20010815021008.30883.qmail@web12501.mail.yahoo.com> <20010815114918.H49989@wantadilla.lemis.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-08/msg00301.html Hi Greg, > Maybe I'm missing something here, but BSD/OS has always supported > core dumping. Are you talking about something else? He is talking about something else - it is the binutils ability to display the contents of core files that is at stakes here. In particular with this patch applied it means that objdump will not be able to display the contents of a core file created on an x86 BSDI system. It will not stop the system from creating them, and debug tools should still be able to process them, it is just that objdump will not be able to disassemble them. Of course if you can work out what is different about core files on BSDI systems (as opposed to say, netBSD systems), it should be possible to add support for that format to the BFD library and then restore binutils' support for core files on BSDI. Cheers Nick