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From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
To: Raphael Zulliger <zulliger@indel.ch>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Ensure correct symbol-file when attaching to a (remote) process
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:11:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121221161114.GA32638@host2.jankratochvil.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50D3FC31.1020103@indel.ch>

On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 07:05:37 +0100, Raphael Zulliger wrote:
> Is there really no such mechanism in GDB?

There is no such reliable mechanism in general.

One could verify build-id in the target, probably that the build-id note is at
the same VMA as present in the local symbol file.

But then also many binaries/compilers do not provide build-id by default (ld
option --build-id).


Jan


  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-21 16:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-21  6:05 Raphael Zulliger
2012-12-21 16:11 ` Jan Kratochvil [this message]
2012-12-21 18:17   ` John Gilmore
2013-01-02 17:57     ` Pedro Alves
2013-01-12 10:59       ` Martin Runge
     [not found]       ` <50EA78FB.3040609@indel.ch>
2013-01-14 18:57         ` Pedro Alves
2013-01-29  3:18       ` Raphael Zulliger
2013-01-29  3:51         ` Raphael Zulliger
2013-02-06 18:47           ` Tom Tromey
2012-12-21 21:12   ` Aleksandar Ristovski
2012-12-22  0:38     ` John Gilmore
2012-12-22  2:54       ` Aleksandar Ristovski
2012-12-24 20:02         ` Aleksandar Ristovski
2012-12-26  0:47           ` John Gilmore
2012-12-27 20:13             ` Aleksandar Ristovski
2013-01-29  3:18     ` Raphael Zulliger

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