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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: PAUL GILLIAM <pgilliam@us.ibm.com>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com, sjmunroe@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: breaks at thread create and delete fail on PPC64/Linux
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 23:22:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060828232206.GA27059@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1156806903.5898.29.camel@dufur.beaverton.ibm.com>

On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 04:15:03PM -0700, PAUL GILLIAM wrote:
> 3) 'dereferencing' the function descriptor should give the
> actual address at which to set a breakpoint, but gives instead
> the offset within the "pthread" library where the breakpoint
> should be placed.
> 
> The attached patch 'fixes' the problem by looking up the load address of the
> "pthread" library and adding that to the address from the PLT.	This seems to
> do the trick, but THIS HAS ONLY BEEN TESTED WITH A 64-BIT GDB AND A 64-BIT
> TARGET.  And it's a real HACK!!! 
> 
> But it does illustrate the problem.
> 
> So, should I try to change GDB so that enable_thread_event() gets called after
> the dynamic loader has has a chance to relocate the .opd?

Here's my question: why isn't that happening already?  Don't we get
shared library events after relocation processing?  Or do we get one
before and one after?

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-28 23:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-28 23:19 PAUL GILLIAM
2006-08-28 23:22 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2006-08-28 23:31   ` PAUL GILLIAM
2006-08-29 19:04   ` Mark Kettenis
2006-08-29 19:08     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-09-20 15:49     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-09-20 17:41       ` John Reiser

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