Just in case it helps anyone, since I did not really have time to
investigate the gdb issues, I came up with the attached elf editor
which replaces the content of PT_INTERP. Eventually, I will have to
deal with gdb but, not now :)


Mathieu



On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Does it work any better with ld.so?  I doubt it - GDB doesn't do
>
> It does not seem to work any better with ld-linux.so.2. I tried to
> look into this a bit more but I did not make much progress. Here is
> what I get:
>
> mathieu@mathieu-boulot:~/code/elf-loader$ gdb ./ldso
> GNU gdb 6.8-debian
> Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
> and "show warranty" for details.
> This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"...
> (gdb) b stage1
> Breakpoint 1 at 0x944: file ldso.c, line 304.
> (gdb) r ./hello
> Starting program: /home/mathieu/code/elf-loader/ldso ./hello
> hello
>
> Program exited normally.
> (gdb)
>
> What I find weird is:
> 1) mathieu@mathieu-boulot:~/code/elf-loader$ readelf -s ./ldso |grep stage1
>   225: 00000932   135 FUNC    GLOBAL HIDDEN    6 stage1
> mathieu@mathieu-boulot:~/code/elf-loader$ readelf -l ./ldso
>
> Elf file type is DYN (Shared object file)
> Entry point 0x932
> There are 6 program headers, starting at offset 52
> [...]
>
> i.e., stage1 is located at offset 0x932, and not 0x944 so, I can't
> figure out where the 0x944 displayed by gdb is coming from. I also
> find it surprising that gdb is actually trying to set a breakpoint at
> address 0x944: this is a pie binary so, gdb should know that the
> address will be known only once the program is run....
>
> To summarize, 2 questions:
> 1) what do I need to do to make gdb _not_ attempt to really set the
> breakpoint before the program is run ?
>
> 2) why is gdb using 0x944 and not 0x932 ?
>
> I am shooting a bit in the dark here, obviously.
>
> Mathieu
> --
> Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@gmail.com>
>



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