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core file format spec?

Jeffrey A Law law@cygnus.com
Mon Oct 18 16:15:00 GMT 1999 
  In message < 199910182214.RAA07878@zwingli.cygnus.com >you write:
  > 
  > Where I can find the spec for the format of an x86 ELF core dump file?
  > I've looked in "System V Application Binary Interface: Intel386
  > Architecture Processor Supplement, Fourth Edition", and in "ABI+ for
  > Intel Architecture, Edition 3.0.1", but haven't seen anything.
I go right into BFD to find this kind of thing :-) ;-)

Of course you'll find that most systems do basically the same thing
(which is why we our ELF core file support isn't all that configurable).
HP is the biggest deviant from the de-facto standard of having phdrsto
describe the memory regions and a PT_NOTE phdr which contains info on
the registers, and other juicy info.


jeff
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