Re: Missing test cases for jit-reader interface

[Andy Wingo <wingo@igalia.com>]

On Wed 25 Feb 2015 23:38, Yao Qi <qiyaoltc@gmail.com> writes:

>>>> >> +if { ![isnative] } {
>>>> >> +    return -1
>>>> >> +}
>>> >
>>> > and remove it too.
>> Does it not need to be this way?  If you are debugging from a big-endian
>> host, you will read the addresses wrong from the inferior, as the
>> jit-reader .so reads the values directly.  (Seems to me anyway.)
>> 
>
> My understanding is that jitreader accesses inferior through GDB, no?

Yes, but it does so through a straw, so to speak -- the only interface
it has is "read these bytes of memory", nothing about pointer sizes,
endianness, etc.  And as an exception, the symfile itself is pre-copied
into the address space of the .so, but without any kind of conversion.

Andy