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From: Yao Qi <qiyaoltc@gmail.com>
To: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Cc: "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>,
	Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>,
		Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [testsuite patchv2] [ppc64] gdb_target_symbol fix for function descriptors [Re: [testsuite patch] [ppc64] +kfail: gdb_target_symbol does not support function descriptors]
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 12:56:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH=s-PMPWJq4Jwdi9O=osKswyBHvTbr9rTuqCg0XH+YQ-UH2Bw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160706193508.GA2313@host1.jankratochvil.net>

Hi Jan,

On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 8:35 PM, Jan Kratochvil
<jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Jul 2016 10:11:22 +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
>> Now the question is how to detect that.  I used "powerpc64-*linux*" target
>> match in my patch but I guess that is not right.  Maybe it could compile first
>> something and check if ".somesymbol" exists.
>
> Implemented the compile test.
>
> It works for me on RHEL-7.2 ppc64 and on Fedora 24 x86_64.
>
> OK for check-in?
>
> I see gdb_target_symbol_prefix is by Kevin so Ccing him if he sees it OK even
> on those platforms.

I am not sure what is the best approach of detecting function descriptor, so
I copy Ulrich.

I suspect we should check whether the program is compiled with ELFv1,
in which function descriptor is used.  So probably, we need to check
__powerpc64__ and (!defined(_CALL_ELF) || _CALL_ELF != 2) instead.

-- 
Yao (齐尧)


  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-12 12:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-05 14:55 [testsuite patch] [ppc64] +kfail: gdb_target_symbol does not support function descriptors Jan Kratochvil
2016-07-06  7:51 ` Yao Qi
2016-07-06  8:11   ` Jan Kratochvil
2016-07-06 19:35     ` [testsuite patchv2] [ppc64] gdb_target_symbol fix for function descriptors [Re: [testsuite patch] [ppc64] +kfail: gdb_target_symbol does not support function descriptors] Jan Kratochvil
2016-07-12 12:56       ` Yao Qi [this message]
2016-07-12 13:22         ` [testsuite patchv2] [ppc64] gdb_target_symbol fix for function descriptors [Re: [testsuite patch] [ppc64] +kfail: gdb_target Ulrich Weigand
2016-07-13  8:54           ` [testsuite patchv3] " Jan Kratochvil
2016-07-13 11:52             ` Ulrich Weigand
2016-07-13 12:02               ` [commit] " Jan Kratochvil

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