From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
To: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [rfc] Fix separate debuginfo files on Cell (do not mask off high address bits)
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:32:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100304203153.GA21129@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201003042001.o24K12OX011806@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com>
On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:01:01 +0100, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
> when using the Cell/B.E. combined debugger, separate debug objfiles for
> SPE executables are currently completely broken. This is because the
> new relocation code now masks off high address bits, corrupting the
> encoded SPU ID in GDB CORE_ADDR values.
Interesting addr_bit is lower than the valid address width.
> Jan, I understand you said this masking-off should no longer be necessary
> due to other changes that occurred in the meantime. Could you verify that
> PIE still works for you with the patch below?
Yes, it works. I have considered this masking is just no-op now (only
possibly with the unresolved negative mips32 addresses reported by Daniel J.).
No regressions on {x86_64,x86_64-m32,i686}-fedora12-linux-gnu.
Thanks,
Jan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-04 20:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-04 20:01 Ulrich Weigand
2010-03-04 20:32 ` Jan Kratochvil [this message]
2010-03-04 20:32 ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-03-05 19:35 ` Ulrich Weigand
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