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From: Florian Weimer via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
To: Kevin Buettner via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix GDB internal error by using text (instead of data) section offset
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2022 17:42:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y232qwht.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220125230429.3329876-1-kevinb@redhat.com> (Kevin Buettner via Gdb-patches's message of "Tue, 25 Jan 2022 16:04:29 -0700")

* Kevin Buettner via Gdb-patches:

> So, what happens if there's no .text section?  If that were to
> occur, GDB would be in real trouble elsewhere since a search
> for "text_section_offset" reveals 55 uses of this method, 27
> of which are in DWARF related code.

The probes will always emit code, right?  So there should be a text
section.

Thanks,
Florian


  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-26 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-25 23:04 Kevin Buettner via Gdb-patches
2022-01-26 16:42 ` Florian Weimer via Gdb-patches [this message]
2022-01-26 18:03 ` Tom Tromey
2022-01-27 17:34   ` Kevin Buettner via Gdb-patches
2022-01-26 20:16 ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches

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