From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 999 invoked by alias); 9 Oct 2008 17:59:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 990 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Oct 2008 17:59:57 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mtagate3.de.ibm.com (HELO mtagate3.de.ibm.com) (195.212.29.152) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:59:08 +0000 Received: from d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com (d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com [9.149.167.49]) by mtagate3.de.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m99Hx5iA222516 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 17:59:05 GMT Received: from d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com (d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com [9.149.165.228]) by d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v9.1) with ESMTP id m99Hx4sB4243502 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 19:59:04 +0200 Received: from d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id m99Hx0Ag006378 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 19:59:01 +0200 Received: from tuxmaker.boeblingen.de.ibm.com (tuxmaker.boeblingen.de.ibm.com [9.152.85.9]) by d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with SMTP id m99Hx0cU006375; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 19:59:00 +0200 Message-Id: <200810091759.m99Hx0cU006375@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com> Received: by tuxmaker.boeblingen.de.ibm.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 9 Oct 2008 19:59:00 +0200 Subject: Re: [rfc] Simplify ppc64_sysv_abi_adjust_breakpoint_address To: luisgpm@linux.vnet.ibm.com Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:59:00 -0000 From: "Ulrich Weigand" Cc: drow@false.org (Daniel Jacobowitz), gdb-patches@sourceware.org In-Reply-To: <1223574985.5110.1.camel@gargoyle> from "Luis Machado" at Oct 09, 2008 02:56:25 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: 2008-10/txt/msg00298.txt.bz2 Luis Machado wrote: > This is exactly about placing breakpoint on numberic addresses like > "break *0x...". GDB used to do that correctly before that patch, but it > doesn't anymore. So, maybe it's OK to consider this is something the > user should be aware of... In that case, I'm wondering where you get those addresses from -- why are those those pointing the descriptor instead of the code? Bye, Ulrich -- Dr. Ulrich Weigand GNU Toolchain for Linux on System z and Cell BE Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com