Re: problem with fetch_link_map_offsets

Kris Warkentin
2003-06-10T12:21:22Z

> > 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