From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Wiljan Derks <Wiljan.Derks@zonnet.nl>,
gdb@sourceware.org, Mark Kettenis <kettenis@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to tell gdb about dlls using remote protocol
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 23:02:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070201230301.GM17864@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070201225437.GA13740@nevyn.them.org>
> In general, if we can not find the start of the current function,
> we have absolutely no chance of getting out of it.
>
> This is a standard problem e.g. with the Windows system DLLs, since
> we have inadequate means to recover symbol information from them.
At least on Windows, I think the change I proposed should help
increase the odds in our favor in this situation. If I read the code
correctly, the current approach will almost always fail, whereas
using %ebp should get us somewhere sensible unless %ebp is used
as a scratch register...
--
Joel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-01 23:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-31 21:08 Wiljan Derks
2007-01-31 22:31 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-02-01 17:52 ` Joel Brobecker
2007-02-01 22:54 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-02-01 23:02 ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2007-02-01 23:59 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-02-02 6:20 ` Robert Dewar
2007-02-02 11:43 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-02-02 16:51 ` Joel Brobecker
2007-02-02 16:56 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-02-02 17:34 ` Joel Brobecker
2007-02-05 20:34 ` Wiljan Derks
2007-02-05 21:21 ` Joel Brobecker
2007-02-07 21:47 ` Mark Kettenis
2007-02-07 22:14 ` Mark Kettenis
2007-02-07 22:17 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-02-08 21:14 ` Mark Kettenis
2007-02-08 23:00 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-02-14 8:51 ` Joel Brobecker
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