From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
To: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] gdb: make is_linked_with_cygwin_dll handle import table not at beginning of .idata section
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 20:21:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d0f88ff6-3cef-1d21-b06f-37d0025a467f@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200416184739.205859-1-simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
On 4/16/20 7:47 PM, Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches wrote:
> When loading the file C:\Windows\SysWOW64\msvcrt.dll, taken from a
> Windows 10 system, into GDB, we get the following warning:
>
> warning: Failed to parse .idata section: name's virtual address (0x0) is outside .idata section's range [0xb82b8, 0xb97f0[.
>
> This uncovers an issue with how we parse the import table, part of the
> .idata section. Right now, we assume that the import table is located
> at the beginning of the section. That was the case in everything I had
> tried so far, but this file is an example where that's not true.
>
> We need to compute the offset of the import table within the .idata
> section, and start there, instead of at the beginning of the .idata
> section. Using the file mentioned above, this is the values we have to
> work with:
>
> A) bfd_section_vma (idata_section) 101b8000
> B) Import table's virtual address b82b8
> C) Image base 10100000
>
> The virtual address that BFD returns us for the section has the image
> base applied, so we need to subtract it first. The offset of the table
> in the section is therefore:
>
> B - (A - C)
>
> This patch implements that.
>
> gdb/ChangeLog:
>
> windows-tdep.c (is_linked_with_cygwin_dll): Consider case where
> import table is not at beginning of .idata section.
Note the missing leading '*'.
This version looks good to me. Both patches.
Thanks,
Pedro Alves
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-16 19:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-16 15:45 [PATCH] " Simon Marchi
2020-04-16 16:27 ` Pedro Alves
2020-04-16 16:52 ` Simon Marchi
2020-04-16 18:47 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] " Simon Marchi
2020-04-16 18:47 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] gdb: is_linked_with_cygwin_dll: mention filename in warning messages Simon Marchi
2020-04-16 19:21 ` Pedro Alves [this message]
2020-04-16 19:47 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] gdb: make is_linked_with_cygwin_dll handle import table not at beginning of .idata section Simon Marchi
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