Robert P. J. DAY says:
According to Mike Frysinger, this patch was removed from Gentoo in the
2.3.x series and didn't seem to cause any adverse effects. So toss it
from the patch directories for glibc 2.5 and up.
1 Sometime around 2.4.22-23, the mips pt_regs.h fields were reordered, breaking
2 coredump handling by gdb for current kernels. Update the hardcoded constants
4 --- gdb-6.2.1/gdb/mips-linux-tdep.c-orig 2004-10-29 14:23:55.000000000 -0500
5 +++ gdb-6.2.1/gdb/mips-linux-tdep.c 2004-10-29 14:26:44.000000000 -0500
15 #define EF_CP0_BADVADDR 41
16 #define EF_CP0_STATUS 42
17 #define EF_CP0_CAUSE 43
19 +#define EF_CP0_STATUS 38
22 +#define EF_CP0_BADVADDR 41
23 +#define EF_CP0_CAUSE 42
24 +#define EF_CP0_EPC 43