Re: [PATCH 4/8] gdb.trace: Use manually-defined start labels in unavailable-dwarf-piece.exp

Ulrich Weigand
2016-03-09T17:24:47Z

Marcin KoÃ…Â›cielnicki wrote:

> On powerpc64, foo/bar point to a function descriptor, not to function code.
> Since there are no global labels pointing at the actual function code,
> let's make our own.

> with_test_prefix "tracing foo" {
> - gdb_test "trace foo" ".*"
> + gdb_test "trace *foo_start_lbl" ".*"

Well, I'd have thought that "trace foo" should simply work as-is,
otherwise, this isn't particularly user-friedly ...

Is there a call to gdbarch_convert_from_func_ptr_addr missing
somewhere in the trace code, maybe?

Bye,
Ulrich

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