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From: Christian Thalinger <twisti@complang.tuwien.ac.at>
To: Carl Shapiro <carl.shapiro@gmail.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Problems with hook-stop
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:35:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1190895312.11262.7.camel@c1.complang.tuwien.ac.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4dcb5abd0709260133h10aede86wb60a22094c8d9884@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 01:33 -0700, Carl Shapiro wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to write a user-defined command hook that automatically
> passes a SIGTRAP to my program.  Here is the definition I am working
> with:
> 
> define hook-stop
>   if (((* (char *) ($pc - 1)) & 0xff) == 0xcc)
>     signal SIGTRAP
>   end
> end

Hi!

I'm also searching for a solution for that problem.  The reason why we
want to use the INT3 instruction on i386 and x86_64 is because we must
be able to replace a machine instruction atomically in our JIT compiler
(where "atomically" reads as "the patching instruction must not be
shorter than the patched one", for obvious reasons).  And INT3 is the
only instruction that is suitable.

Right now we're using UD2, but that's only a temporary solution.

- twisti


      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-09-27 12:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-26 16:06 Carl Shapiro
2007-09-27 12:06 ` Mark Kettenis
2007-09-28  1:23   ` Carl Shapiro
2007-09-29 21:44     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-10-02  7:57       ` Carl Shapiro
2007-10-02 11:42         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-09-27 12:35 ` Christian Thalinger [this message]

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