From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] support for gzipped (ELF) core dumps
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 13:43:00 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <crjf94$a03$1@news.cistron.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1105017578.28175.1.camel@borcx178
In article <1105017578.28175.1.camel@borcx178>,
Jan Frey <jan.frey@nokia.com> wrote:
>I've written a patch for 2.4.28 kernel which enables writing of core
>dump files for ELF binaries in .gz format. This is interesting when
>using and debugging large binaries. In my case core files exceeded 1GB
>and got written via NFS...
>Anyhow, below patch is not really "beautiful", especially CRC looks
>quite annoying here.
>+/* This table is needed for efficient CRC32 calculation */
>+static const unsigned long crc_table[8][256] = {
>+ {
>+ 0x00000000UL, 0x77073096UL, 0xee0e612cUL, 0x990951baUL, 0x076dc419UL,
You know, this looks exactly the same as lib/crc32table.h ...
I'd consider using lib/crc32.c.
Mike.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-06 13:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-06 13:19 [PATCH] support for gzipped (ELF) core dumps Jan Frey
2005-01-06 13:30 ` linux-os
2005-01-06 13:43 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg [this message]
2005-01-08 17:27 Shaheed
2005-01-13 11:51 ` Jan Frey
2005-01-13 13:29 ` Shaheed
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