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From: Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com>
To: Fawzi Mohamed <fawzi.mohamed@nokia.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: patches for mac support
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 09:38:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3634A65E-25ED-4F1F-8D22-AD3FCEAF2C9B@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9B2A7195-51A9-4F40-97B9-159E041D3174@nokia.com>


On Jun 23, 2011, at 10:07 PM, Fawzi Mohamed wrote:

Mohamed,

First, thank you for this work.

> I have worked on bug http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11488 .
> Now I think that I have reached to bottom of it, and I have a set of clean patches that could use a review.
> 
> Apple gdb simply ignores the eh_frame sections for the libraries without embedded dwarf info, not using eh information (which was the first patch that I submitted) but I find that one should be able to use them, so I looked further and found the "correct" fix.
> As the path to it was a bit convoluted I have done a few improvements to pieces of code that did fail as consequence of the original bug.
> 
> The "main" fix is
>   http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=5816&action=diff
> which fixes the mmaped read of sections.

We (AdaCore) has something very similar in our internal tree.  I very recently worked on submitting a patch to fix this issue.
The submitted patch was larger as I tried to clean-up this API.

Note that you need to properly submit your patches: one patch by mail is better (IMHO), patch should be inlined if not large, and
you need ChangeLog entries.  I suppose the instructions are on the web, also I don't know where.

> I feel that
> 	http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=5817
> which adds a check on the cie pointer is important and improves gdb robustness and should also go in.
> 
> 	http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=5814
> adds the forgotten ignore of routine_64 load command, and should also go in

Note that this should be submitted on the binutils mailing list.

> 	http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=5809
> is something that I have seen apple does and seems reasonable, but I have not needed it, so I am not sure if it should go in
> 
> I have also noted that compiling gdb I have the following conflict in the grammar, not sure if you are aware of it
> 
> /bin/sh ../../gdb72/gdb/../ylwrap ../../gdb72/gdb/m2-exp.y y.tab.c m2-exp.c.tmp -- bison -y
> conflicts: 34 shift/reduce
> /Users/fawzi/dev/gdb/gdb72Build/gdb/../../gdb72/gdb/m2-exp.y:355.25-44: warning: rule never reduced because of conflicts: @2: /* empty */

Tristan.


  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-24  9:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-23 20:07 Fawzi Mohamed
2011-06-24  9:38 ` Tristan Gingold [this message]
2011-06-24 11:09   ` Pedro Alves
2011-06-26  0:23   ` fawzi.mohamed
2011-06-27  8:59     ` Tristan Gingold
2011-06-27  9:18       ` Fawzi Mohamed
2011-06-27  9:46       ` André Pönitz
2011-06-27 15:59   ` Fawzi Mohamed

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