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From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
To: drow@false.org
Cc: mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl, gdb-patches@sourceware.org, matz@suse.de
Subject: Re: RFC: %ebp-based backtrace patch
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:37:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200912272137.nBRLbJPq029640@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091227165916.GA24409@caradoc.them.org> (message from Daniel 	Jacobowitz on Sun, 27 Dec 2009 11:59:16 -0500)

> Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 11:59:16 -0500
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> 
> On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 08:53:30AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 11:01:16AM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> > > Before comitting this diff, I ran the testsuite, and noticed a
> > > regression.  The problem is that if you do a function call through a
> > > null-function-pointer or an otherwise corrupt function pointer, and
> > > get a SIGSEGV, the backtrace no longer shows the frame that did the
> > > function call.
> > > 
> > > Until we come up with a way to fix this issue, I'm not going to commit
> > > the diff.
> > 
> > Hmm.  if (target_read_memory (pc, buf, 1)) ?  That's how a similar
> > issue is handled on ARM, in arm_stub_unwind_sniffer.
> 
> Hi Mark,
> 
> I was looking through Ubuntu's local GDB patches and noticed this one
> is still outstanding.  Will the above work?  I can test and
> (hopefully) commit it, if you'd like.

Sorry, but I don't see how this would solve things.  Do you have a
diff for me to look at?


  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-27 21:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-06 18:33 Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-07-06 20:11 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2009-07-06 20:21   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-07-07 12:15   ` Michael Matz
2009-07-07 13:19     ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2009-07-07 13:49       ` Michael Matz
2009-07-06 21:57 ` Mark Kettenis
2009-07-07 12:00   ` Michael Matz
2009-07-07 13:00   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-07-07 13:07     ` Mark Kettenis
2009-07-08  9:01     ` Mark Kettenis
2009-07-08 12:53       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-12-27 16:59         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-12-27 21:37           ` Mark Kettenis [this message]
2009-12-27 22:03             ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2010-02-01 19:46               ` Daniel Jacobowitz

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