On 03/10/2015 04:01 PM, Michael Eager wrote:
> Add support to automatically unzip compressed executable and core files.
> Files will be uncompressed into temporary directory (/tmp or $TMPDIR)
> and are deleted when GDB exits.  This should be transparent to users,
> except for disk space requirements.  The name of the uncompressed file is
> mentioned, but all references to the file in GDB messages is to the file
> which the user specified.

Attached is a revised patch.  I discovered a logic error after refactoring
the code.

gdb/ChangeLog:
   * utils.c (struct compressed_file_cache_search, eq_compressed_file,
   is_gzip, decompress_gzip, do_compressed_cleanup, identify_compression,
   uncompress_to_temporar, gdb_uncompress): New.
   * utils.h (gdb_uncompress): Declare.
   * corelow.c (core_open): Uncompress core file.
   * exec.c (exec_file_attach): Uncompress exec file.
   * symfile.c (symfile_bfd_open): Uncompress sym (exec) file.
   * NEWS: Mention new functionality.


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