From: Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 7/7] [gdb/tui] Handle section holes when backward disassembling
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2026 23:45:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <eacc00cf-79c8-43b6-9920-d08ce411139e@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260909094849.2745086-8-tdevries@suse.de>
On 9/9/26 11:48 AM, Tom de Vries wrote:
> This also break gdb.tui/tui-layout-asm-short-prog.exp test-case, because it
> expects not being able to disassemble instructions before .text.
>
> It's easy enough to fix that using:
> ...
> -Term::command "- 15"
> +Term::command "- 4"
> ...
> but AFAIU, that breaks the purpose of the test-case.
>
> So instead, I've used objcopy --remove-section=.note.* to strip the sections
> before .text.
After committing commit ("[gdb/tui] Improve section handling in
tui_find_backward_disassembly_start_address") I ran into this problem on
aarch64-linux.
I've pushed this patch (
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2026-September/230473.html
) to deal with this.
Thanks,
- Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-19 21:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-09 9:48 [PATCH v2 0/7] [gdb/tui] Some section hole handling fixes Tom de Vries
2026-09-09 9:48 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] [gdb/tui] Improve tui_disassemble comment Tom de Vries
2026-09-09 9:48 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] [gdb/tui] Fix underflow in tui_find_backward_disassembly_start_address Tom de Vries
2026-09-11 18:12 ` Tom Tromey
2026-09-11 18:14 ` Tom Tromey
2026-09-09 9:48 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] [gdb/tui] Improve section handling " Tom de Vries
2026-09-11 18:26 ` Tom Tromey
2026-09-14 7:31 ` Tom de Vries
2026-09-19 16:01 ` Tom de Vries
2026-09-09 9:48 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] [gdb] replace bsearch with std::lower_bound in find_pc_section Tom de Vries
2026-09-11 18:19 ` Tom Tromey
2026-09-14 7:34 ` Tom de Vries
2026-09-09 9:48 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] [gdb] Add prev/next params to find_pc_section Tom de Vries
2026-09-11 18:40 ` Tom Tromey
2026-09-09 9:48 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] [gdb/tui] Handle section holes when forward disassembling Tom de Vries
2026-09-11 18:39 ` Tom Tromey
2026-09-21 21:29 ` Tom de Vries
2026-09-23 15:51 ` Tom Tromey
2026-09-09 9:48 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] [gdb/tui] Handle section holes when backward disassembling Tom de Vries
2026-09-11 18:48 ` Tom Tromey
2026-09-19 21:45 ` Tom de Vries [this message]
2026-09-11 18:52 ` [PATCH v2 0/7] [gdb/tui] Some section hole handling fixes Tom Tromey
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