From: Mark Kettenis <kettenis@gnu.org>
To: kevinb@redhat.com
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFA] Don't relocate SunOS-style a.out dynamic executables
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 14:32:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200409081431.i88EVKPc023175@juw15.nfra.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040824163945.35ee121a@saguaro> (message from Kevin Buettner on Tue, 24 Aug 2004 16:39:45 -0700)
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 16:39:45 -0700
From: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 20:56:34 +0200 (CEST)
Mark Kettenis <kettenis@chello.nl> wrote:
> Since I was curious whether our SunOS-style a.out shared library
> support still worked, I fired up my virtual VAX[1] and installed
> NetBSD 1.5.2 on it. Alas, GDB didn't quite work, and indeed the
> solib-sunos.c code is to blame. Some debugging revealed that the code
> was relocating the main executable over two bytes. If you know a bit
> about the VAX and look at the code it is pretty easy to see why. VAX
> functions start at an offset of two bytes from the function's address.
Those two bytes are a register save mask? (Not that it matters; just
trying to remember something that I knew a very long time ago.)
Yup.
> If so, I'd like to apply the attached patch.
Sure. It's okay with me.
Committed now, thanks (and sorry for the delay),
Mark
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2004-08-22 18:56 Mark Kettenis
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