From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
To: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>
Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>,
Raphael Zulliger <zulliger@indel.ch>,
gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Ensure correct symbol-file when attaching to a (remote) process
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 17:57:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50E474E3.7050605@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201212211917.qBLJH6Il028006@new.toad.com>
On 12/21/2012 07:17 PM, John Gilmore wrote:
> The best you can do in an automated way is to check the areas
> of memory that are intended to contain instructions and read-only
> data.
For bare metal targets, that's often good enough, and GDB does have
support that built in:
(gdb) help compare-sections
Compare section data on target to the exec file.
Argument is a single section name (default: all loaded sections).
A build id check would really be ideal.
--
Pedro Alves
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-02 17:57 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
2012-12-21 18:17 ` John Gilmore
2013-01-02 17:57 ` Pedro Alves [this message]
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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