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From: "Kris Warkentin" <kewarken@qnx.com>
To: <Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com>
Cc: "Kevin Buettner" <kevinb@redhat.com>,
	"Gdb@Sources.Redhat.Com" <gdb@sources.redhat.com>,
	<Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com>
Subject: Re: problem with fetch_link_map_offsets
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 12:21:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <047001c32f4a$d31eead0$0202040a@catdog> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200306101012.h5AAClK01881@pc960.cambridge.arm.com>

> > Yeah but....a QNX binary is just an ordinary elf binary.  There are no
> > special sections or magic in there for the sniffer to catch.  Hence my
> > problem.  Perhaps it should be returning unknown so that another sniffer
> > (like my one liner) could get it?
> >
>
> NetBSD binaries look like ordinary ELF too, as do Linux.  The only way to
> resolve this is to arange for the crt0.o file to contain some magic that
> GDB can find.  Normally this is a special .note section.
>
> Can you not arrange for QNX binaries to have such a note and then add
that.

Perhaps.  I'll have to talk to some of the folk here.  I think it would be
really handy to be able to recognize one of our binaries.  Thanks for the
suggestion.

cheers,

Kris



  reply	other threads:[~2003-06-10 12:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-28 20:21 Kris Warkentin
2003-04-28 21:23 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-04-29 13:27   ` Kris Warkentin
2003-04-29 15:07 ` Kevin Buettner
2003-04-29 15:25   ` Kris Warkentin
2003-04-29 16:28     ` Kevin Buettner
2003-04-29 21:18       ` Kris Warkentin
2003-06-09 21:20         ` Kris Warkentin
2003-06-09 21:34           ` Kevin Buettner
2003-06-09 21:40             ` Kris Warkentin
2003-06-10 10:12               ` Richard Earnshaw
2003-06-10 12:21                 ` Kris Warkentin [this message]
2003-06-10 12:26                   ` Richard Earnshaw
2003-06-10 14:53                   ` Kris Warkentin
2003-06-11 19:05                     ` Kris Warkentin

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