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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 18:06:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1223575546.5110.7.camel@gargoyle> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200810091804.m99I47Zu012430@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com>

On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 20:04 +0200, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
> Luis Machado wrote:
> 
> > 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
> 
> I see.  Couldn't you just use
>   b _start
> and everything should work as expected?
> 
> Bye,
> Ulrich

That would work OK. It's just that this was something GDB did in the
past, and it's not doing anymore. So i'm just checking if we want to
keep it this way and consider the user knows what he's doing or not.

Luis


      reply	other threads:[~2008-10-09 18:06 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
2008-10-09 18:06               ` Ulrich Weigand
2008-10-09 18:06                 ` Luis Machado [this message]

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