Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 08:12:44 -0700 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/file/Magdir elf Message-ID: <199810091512.IAA01679@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "09 Oct 1998 11:57:19 %2B0200." <xzpiuhut5vk.fsf@hvergelmir.ifi.uio.no>
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> > Don't try to print out the signal number that caused core to be > > dumped. It is not in a fixed location in the file, so at best, > > garbage comes out. I don't think this code was ever valid. > > Ouch. Any chance of ever getting this functionality back? I find it > kinda useful. Yes, I will put it back. There's actually a whole "readelf.c" module in the program, for extracting information from ELF files. I will put the functionality there. The old signal printout was just wrong, and I had gotten several e-mails from people asking why their program had gotten a signal 72838. :-) For the immediate term, it seemed better to remove it than to keep it in its bogus form. John
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