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From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
To: eager@eagerm.com
Cc: amodra@gmail.com, gdb@sourceware.org, rsa@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: Next over function with Secure PLT
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:53:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201112080852.pB88qcxw000068@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EE06B0F.3050202@eagerm.com> (message from Michael Eager on Wed,	07 Dec 2011 23:45:19 -0800)

> Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 23:45:19 -0800
> From: Michael Eager <eager@eagerm.com>
> 
> > gdb ought to just pattern match the stub code to recognize when the pc
> > is in a stub.
> 
> I wanted to avoid pattern matching code because of the dependency it
> creates between code generation and debugging.  But that shouldn't
> be much of an issue or hard to implement.

This tends to be less of an issue with PLT stubs since their
instruction sequence is in many cases prescribed by the ABI.


      reply	other threads:[~2011-12-08  8:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-08  0:45 Michael Eager
2011-12-08  3:44 ` Ryan Arnold
2011-12-08  4:01 ` Alan Modra
2011-12-08  7:45   ` Michael Eager
2011-12-08  8:53     ` Mark Kettenis [this message]

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