Re: Core dump (semi) update

[Roland McGrath]

> I'm a bit confused about the padding that we add to the core note
> segment in elfcore.c, it seems that it is 8 bytes long.  

I really have no idea exactly what you are talking about.  Be specific.

> If that is the case, then I really can't see any problems in the reading
> code, here is a small bit from my debug session:

This makes no sense whatsoever.  You cited objdump output showing the .reg2
fake section with file offset of 0.  That cannot possibly result from
elfcore_grok_lwpstatus doing:

  sect->filepos = note->descpos + offsetof (lwpstatus_t, pr_fpreg);