for. This is useful for software needing to know which architecture a
binary is built for as arm and armv6 have slight differences meaning only
some binaries build for one will work as expected on the other. It is
expected pkgng will be able to make use of this to simplify the logic to
determine which package ABI to use.
Approved by: re (kib)
Add a function to return the specific type, when the note's Name field is
'FreeBSD'.
r249558 added FreeBSD-specific ELF note types that reuse type numbers of
existing generic / Linux types. This caused 'readelf -n' to produce
incorrect output on FreeBSD core files.
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
MFC after: 3 days
.note.ABI-tag section.
This helps on ARM EABI where the OS/ABI field is zero. It would be better
to use the NOTES program header however this would require a more invasive
change.
thread specific informations.
In order to do that, and in order to avoid KBI breakage with existing
infrastructure the following semantic is implemented:
- For live programs, a new member to the PT_LWPINFO is added (pl_tdname)
- For cores, a new ELF note is added (NT_THRMISC) that can be used for
storing thread specific, miscellaneous, informations. Right now it is
just popluated with a thread name.
GDB, then, retrieves the correct informations from the corefile via the
BFD interface, as it groks the ELF notes and create appropriate
pseudo-sections.
Sponsored by: Sandvine Incorporated
Tested by: gianni
Discussed with: dim, kan, kib
MFC after: 2 weeks
us up to version 2.17.50.20070703, at the last GPLv2 commit.
Amongst others, this added upstream support for some FreeBSD-specific
things that we previously had to manually hack in, such as the OSABI
label support, and so on.
There are also quite a number of new files, some for cpu's (e.g. SPU)
that we may or may not be interested in, but those can be cleaned up
later on, if needed.
Binutils has a "contrib" subdirectory - thus flattening cannot happen
without renaming the upper level contrib directory in a first pass.
Also, don't record this move and remove any keyword expansion.
