From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFA/solib-svr4] use AT_BASE auxiliary entry to compute load base address
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:48:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080417173711.GN17488@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200804171511.m3HFBc5N021455@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com>
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 05:11:38PM +0200, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
> GDB used to work correctly in the presence of prelinking anyway,
> because for regular shared libraries it detected that mismatch by
> comparing the load addresses from the BFD it reads with those
> recorded in the dynamic loader's data structures (LM_ADDR_CHECK),
> and adjusting its expectations if it detects prelinking.
Can we read the dynamic linker's ELF header from the target, to
compare?
Wait, no, we can't... if we knew where it was loaded we wouldn't
need AT_BASE. Well, we could ask gdbserver to read from the
target filesystem for us...
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-17 17:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-12 21:18 Joel Brobecker
2007-09-13 1:02 ` Joel Brobecker
2007-09-16 19:36 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-09-17 19:42 ` Joel Brobecker
2007-09-17 19:49 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-04-17 15:29 ` Ulrich Weigand
2008-04-17 17:48 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2008-04-17 21:45 ` Ulrich Weigand
2008-04-17 22:32 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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