Changeset 74e6b1f in mainline for kernel/generic/include/lib/elf.h

Timestamp:

2011-07-29T16:33:45Z (14 years ago)

Author:

Jiri Svoboda <jiri@…>

Branches:

lfn, master, serial, ticket/834-toolchain-update, topic/msim-upgrade, topic/simplify-dev-export

Children:

3fab770

Parents:

f5d51de

Message:

Write register state to core files (amd64).

File:

• kernel/generic/include/lib/elf.h (modified) (1 diff)

kernel/generic/include/lib/elf.h

@@ -327 +327 @@
         elf_word type;
 };
+/*
+ * NOTE: namesz, descsz and type should be 64-bits wide (elf_xword)
+ * per the 64-bit ELF spec. The Linux kernel however screws up and
+ * defines them as Elf64_Word, which is 32-bits wide(!). We are trying
+ * to make our core files compatible with Linux GDB target so we copy
+ * the blunder here.
+ */
 struct elf64_note {
-        elf_xword namesz;
-        elf_xword descsz;
-        elf_xword type;
+        elf_word namesz;
+        elf_word descsz;
+        elf_word type;
 };