tberghammer added a comment.
Hi Greg, can you take a look sometime? Thanks, Tamas
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Comment at: source/Plugins/Process/elf-core/ProcessElfCore.cpp:733-735
+ if (target_arch.IsMIPS()) {
return target_arch;
+ }
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nitesh.jain wrote:
> tberghammer wrote:
> > Hi Nitesh,
> >
> > I tried to remove this MIPS specific code as it shouldn't be necessary if I
> > add the above MergeFrom for all architecture but if I do it fails LinuxCore
> > TestCase.test_mips_n32.
> >
> > The issue is that in that case the tripe we get from the core file is
> > "mipsel--" ("mipsel--linux" after the merge) and the one we get from the
> > binary is "mips64el--linux". Is it normal to have a seemingly 32bit core
> > file with a 64bit binary on mips? If not then can I ask you to help me
> > figure out which one is incorrect?
> >
> > If it is then I don't see any better short term solution then leaving this
> > condition here but it feels like a quite big hack what might backfire when
> > somebody tries to use a core file with a completely incompatible binary.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tamas
> Hi Tamas,
>
> In MIPS , the core file doesn't contain any Architecture information . It's
> just specify the generic MIPS architecture. Hence we need to relied on
> target_arch for correct architecture informations.
>
> TestCase.test_mips_n32 is "32 bit binary" with triple "mips64el-linux". This
> binary can only run on 64 bit target as compared to O32 which can run on
> 32/64 bit target.
Thank you for the explanation. I added a comment to the code to explain it
better there.
https://reviews.llvm.org/D36046
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