From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22869 invoked by alias); 30 Dec 2003 15:27:02 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 22862 invoked from network); 30 Dec 2003 15:27:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 30 Dec 2003 15:27:01 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.30 #1 (Debian)) id 1AbLls-0003Ss-RW; Tue, 30 Dec 2003 10:27:00 -0500 Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 15:27:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: inner block not inside outer block Message-ID: <20031230152700.GA13258@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Eli Zaretskii , gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <20031228184655.GA29177@nevyn.them.org> <5469-Tue30Dec2003163920+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5469-Tue30Dec2003163920+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-12/txt/msg00282.txt.bz2 On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 04:39:20PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 13:46:56 -0500 > > From: Daniel Jacobowitz > > > > You can't use readelf but I assume you can get one of > > the other DWARF debugging tools to work - maybe dwarfdump - and figure > > out what the actual bounds of the blocks in question are? > > I tried dwarfdump (the version from 29-Aug-2001), but couldn't build > it, not even on Debian GNU/Linux: it chokes on the missing definition > of the `Elf' data type. How did you manage to build it? Is there > perhaps a newer version that is better? (I tried to google for it and > found a pointer to Dave Anderson's page where there's supposed to be a > version from this year, but that page seems to be unreachable.) > > Or maybe there are alternative tools--what are they? Well, the last time that I needed to use it it built OK on Debian GNU/Linux; I was also using a 2001 version. You may need to debug GDB's dwarf2read instead and figure out what the debugging information says that way :( -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer