From: Luis Machado <luisgpm@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [rfc] Simplify ppc64_sysv_abi_adjust_breakpoint_address
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:02:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1223575325.5110.5.camel@gargoyle> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200810091759.m99Hx0cU006375@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com>
On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 19:59 +0200, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
> Luis Machado wrote:
>
> > This is exactly about placing breakpoint on numberic addresses like
> > "break *0x...". GDB used to do that correctly before that patch, but it
> > doesn't anymore. So, maybe it's OK to consider this is something the
> > user should be aware of...
>
> In that case, I'm wondering where you get those addresses from --
> why are those those pointing the descriptor instead of the code?
>
> Bye,
> Ulrich
This is a very specific case where i fetch the so called entry-point
from the auxv table in a 64-bit ppc binary. It shows the function
descriptor's address.
9 AT_ENTRY Entry point of program 0x100111d0
(gdb) x/g 0x100111d0
0x100111d0 <_start>: 0x000000001000053c
Luis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-09 18:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-15 10:11 Ulrich Weigand
2008-05-15 17:03 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-05-16 16:21 ` Ulrich Weigand
2008-10-07 16:31 ` Luis Machado
2008-10-09 17:53 ` Ulrich Weigand
2008-10-09 17:57 ` Luis Machado
2008-10-09 17:59 ` Ulrich Weigand
2008-10-09 18:02 ` Luis Machado [this message]
2008-10-09 18:06 ` Ulrich Weigand
2008-10-09 18:06 ` Luis Machado
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