Re: [RFA] "continue" after "attach" fails on sparc64-solaris

[Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>]

> If anything I think you're underabusing them - we asked you to be a
> global maintainer because we trusted your judgement :-)

OK! :)

> > > I fixed the problem by implementing a suggestion to use the AT_BASE
> > > attributed, but as it turns out, this was only good enough for sparc32.
> > > As far as I can tell, the auxilliary data obtained when running a 64bit
> > > app looks screwed. So we still have the same problem on sparc64.
> 
> This was what threw me off an immediate reply.  I doubt the kernel's
> got a bug like this, since Solaris tools use the auxv data.  So we
> must have an error when reading it.  Maybe the format is different
> than we expect (32-bit vs 64-bit fields)?

It's been a while, but I remember inspecting the memory contents
of what was supposed to be the AUXV region, and couldn't make any
sense out of it at the time, even after trying to change sizes
to 32bit or 64bit. If I get a chance, I'll look at it again.

> Otherwise the patch looks fine.

Thanks! I checked it in.

-- 
Joel