From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
To: drow@false.org
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [rft/symtab] Check the sizes of minimal symbols
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2006 20:26:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200607092026.k69KQKQg027664@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060707035420.GA8071@nevyn.them.org> (message from Daniel Jacobowitz on Thu, 6 Jul 2006 23:54:20 -0400)
> Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 23:54:20 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
>
> This is something I've been meaning to do for years, on general principle.
> Much to my surprise it did very good things (~ 15% fails fixed) for my
> native amd64 test run, too, so I have a good example to illustrate with.
>
> In ELF, one of the properties of a symbol is its size. If left unspecified,
> the size is treated as zero. Some hand-written code may lack .size, but
> most compiled code will have it.
Cool! Unfortunately there seems to be something wrong with the patch.
On i386-pc-openbsd3.9, a gdb segfaults when I try to run anything.
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x1c0066a8 in lookup_minimal_symbol_by_pc_section (pc=469800299,
section=0x800e95fc) at ../../../src/gdb/gdb/minsyms.c:535
535 if (MSYMBOL_SIZE (&msymbol[hi]) != 0
Mark
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-07 3:54 Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-07-09 20:26 ` Mark Kettenis [this message]
2006-07-09 20:36 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-07-11 22:01 ` Mark Kettenis
2006-07-11 22:48 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-07-13 23:24 ` Mark Kettenis
2006-07-19 2:17 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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