During the last week core-file examining with gdb started to work for the
sparc. The most visible change is a different format of core-dump produced
by the kernel that allows the machine state to be picked up much more easily.
Also, more of the data actually in a process' address space is dumped which
has the nice side effect that gdb can now automagically find the shared
libraries (if any) that were in use by the program and read in their symbol
tables. I've had to change the run-time linker in two places to force some
strings into the data segment for gdb to find.

-pk

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