From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26471 invoked by alias); 16 May 2008 20:42:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 26462 invoked by uid 22791); 16 May 2008 20:42:47 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from NaN.false.org (HELO nan.false.org) (208.75.86.248) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 16 May 2008 20:42:28 +0000 Received: from nan.false.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B121983F9; Fri, 16 May 2008 20:42:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from caradoc.them.org (22.svnf5.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.183.55]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F435983D6; Fri, 16 May 2008 20:42:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from drow by caradoc.them.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Jx6ky-0002ht-Fo; Fri, 16 May 2008 16:42:24 -0400 Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 13:31:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Ulrich Weigand Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [rfc] Fix problem with (maybe) non-relocated .opd section on powerpc64-linux Message-ID: <20080516204224.GA10387@caradoc.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Ulrich Weigand , gdb-patches@sourceware.org References: <20080515182133.GA12681@caradoc.them.org> <200805162035.m4GKZE6E025581@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200805162035.m4GKZE6E025581@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2008-05-11) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-05/txt/msg00522.txt.bz2 On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 10:35:14PM +0200, Ulrich Weigand wrote: > Thinking about this, it seems this would mean that function descriptors > cannot work in kernel modules even today: add-symbol-file solely adds > an objfile (with obj_sections and so on); it does not modify the target > and its section table. Right? Sounds like you're right. I have never tried it, though many of our customers use KGDB; perhaps not the ones who use PPC64. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery