From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Add ELF auxiliary vector handling for FreeBSD
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 17:10:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <36664959.XkWKNdCmp7@ralph.baldwin.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160616060202.63470-1-jhb@FreeBSD.org>
On Wednesday, June 15, 2016 11:01:56 PM John Baldwin wrote:
> This patch series fixes 'info auxv' to work on live binaries and cores
> for FreeBSD. I believe most of these patches are straightforward.
> I broke out parsing of FreeBSD-specific ELF core notes to avoid a
> collision with duplicate NT_* values (NT_FREEBSD_PROCSTAT_AUXV conflicts
> with NT_LWPSTATUS). The biggest change is adding a new gdbarch method
> to handle formatting individual auxv vectors. FreeBSD uses AT_* constants
> that overlap with existing AT_* constants but with different meanings.
> One result of making the interpretation of AT_* constants a gdbarch
> method is that 'info auxv' shows the correct output (Linux values)
> when gdb inspects a Linux binary executing on FreeBSD via FreeBSD's
> Linux ABI support.
Ping?
The binutils patches have been ok'd, but the gdb patches haven't been
reviewed yet.
--
John Baldwin
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-20 17:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-16 6:02 John Baldwin
2016-06-16 6:02 ` [PATCH 1/6] Add constants for FreeBSD-specific auxiliary vector entry types John Baldwin
2016-06-17 8:27 ` Nick Clifton
2016-06-16 6:02 ` [PATCH 6/6] Add a gdbarch 'print_auxv' method for FreeBSD ABIs John Baldwin
2016-06-20 23:43 ` Pedro Alves
2016-06-16 6:02 ` [PATCH 3/6] Fetch the ELF auxiliary vector from live processes on FreeBSD John Baldwin
2016-06-20 23:01 ` Pedro Alves
2016-06-16 6:02 ` [PATCH 2/6] Add elfcore_grok_freebsd_note to parse FreeBSD ELF core notes John Baldwin
2016-06-17 8:28 ` Nick Clifton
2016-06-16 6:11 ` [PATCH 4/6] Create a psuedo section for the ELF AUXV core dump note on FreeBSD John Baldwin
2016-06-17 8:28 ` Nick Clifton
2016-06-20 23:45 ` Pedro Alves
2016-06-16 6:11 ` [PATCH 5/6] Add a new gdbarch method to print a single AUXV entry John Baldwin
2016-06-20 23:40 ` Pedro Alves
2016-06-23 20:19 ` John Baldwin
2016-06-20 17:10 ` John Baldwin [this message]
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