Messages in this thread | | | From | Roland McGrath <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] coredump: add a new elf note with siginfo fields of the signal | Date | Fri, 14 Sep 2012 09:38:20 -0700 (PDT) |
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Other ELF notes have per-machine layouts too. It's far more important to reduce the total number of ways we have to represent the same information. On a given machine, we already have a layout and we don't want another. Debuggers and so forth already know how to handle the per-machine layouts. The core file is just another way to get the same chunk of data you can get from the live process.
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