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From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>
Cc: Kamil Rytarowski <n54@gmx.com>,
	 gdb-patches@sourceware.org, tom@tromey.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] Disable get_ptrace_pid for NetBSD
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 09:50:47 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tv2jkotk.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6e74c142-d3e7-6fd8-b765-594931be898b@simark.ca> (Simon Marchi's message of "Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:30:24 -0400")

>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca> writes:

Simon> Ah, it's because ptrace returns long and not int on GNU/Linux.
Simon> So when we want to read a 64-bits word from memory, it gets
Simon> truncated.  gdb_ptrace should return PTRACE_TYPE_RET.

FWIW it's also fine to just return long from our wrapper; at least if
all known ptrace implementations return some integer type.

Simon> In fact, to be consistent, all these gdb_ptrace functions should
Simon> be changed to return PTRACE_TYPE_RET (as a separate patch).

Now that we have C++ we could probably get rid of these autoconf checks
and just use the template instantiation or overloading tricks.

Tom



  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-03-20 16:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-18 21:49 [PATCH] " Kamil Rytarowski
2020-03-18 21:51 ` Kamil Rytarowski
2020-03-18 21:55 ` [PATCH v2] " Kamil Rytarowski
2020-03-18 22:21   ` Simon Marchi
2020-03-18 23:30     ` Kamil Rytarowski
2020-03-18 23:16   ` [PATCH v3] " Kamil Rytarowski
2020-03-19  1:13     ` Simon Marchi
2020-03-19 12:01       ` Kamil Rytarowski
2020-03-19 12:28     ` [PATCH v4] " Kamil Rytarowski
2020-03-19 12:55       ` Simon Marchi
2020-03-19 15:30         ` Simon Marchi
2020-03-19 15:51           ` Kamil Rytarowski
2020-03-20 15:50           ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2020-03-19 15:45       ` [PATCH v5] " Kamil Rytarowski
2020-03-19 19:27         ` Simon Marchi

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