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From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [patch] Fix a glitch in debugging 32-bit process with 64-bit GDB.
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 16:02:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081213160110.GF6866@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8ac60eac0812111603r68ffa49exd7cb0ce403d07310@mail.gmail.com>

> So, the choices appear to be:
> 
> - leave GDB broken and wait for newer glibc :(

I'm just realizing that this might be a very very visible problem,
if most offsets are negative. Is that the case?

> - do sign extension, but only for N_LSYM and N_PSYM symbols as
>  a heuristic.

It seems to me that this should work without negative effect
(we have to be a little careful because there is a 64bit stabs
extension on Tru64).  After all, values for these types of symbols
are always offsets to some location inside a frame, and I can't see
a frame being that big.

> - pre-scan the objfile to determine highest link address, and
>  do sign extension if that address is (well) below 0x80000000

Seems too much work, IMO.

-- 
Joel


  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-13 16:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-09  1:33 Paul Pluzhnikov
2008-12-09  2:08 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-12-09  2:43   ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2008-12-09 11:30     ` Peter Schauer
2008-12-09 13:34     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-12-10 11:14       ` Joel Brobecker
2008-12-10 15:59         ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2008-12-10 23:21           ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2008-12-11  8:57             ` Andreas Schwab
     [not found]               ` <8ac60eac0812111601v20566268h6f7977c71e5b8a8f@mail.gmail.com>
2008-12-12  0:11                 ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2008-12-13 16:02                   ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2008-12-13 18:18                     ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2008-12-15  8:59                       ` Joel Brobecker
2008-12-15 21:47                         ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2008-12-16  4:48                           ` Joel Brobecker
2008-12-11  9:21             ` Mark Kettenis

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