Re: [patch] Fixes problem setting breakpoint in dynamic loader

Kevin Buettner
2006-07-06T16:10:34Z

On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 16:57:23 -0700
PAUL GILLIAM <pgilliam@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> + /* What we're looking for here is the machine code entry point,
> + so we are only interested in symbols in code sections.
> +
> + On ABI's that use function descriptors, the linker symbol with
> + the same name as a C funtion points to that functions descriptor.
> + When those function descriptors are in the code section, they
> + contain executable code and we can set a breakpoint there. */

See my earlier post regarding this comment:

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2006-06/msg00382.html

In addition to the problems that Daniel has found, there are three
other punctuation / spelling problems that I had brought to your
attention.

Kevin