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From: Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>
To: Nan Xiao <xiaonan830818@gmail.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: The newest gdb 8.3 crash on OpenBSD
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2020 17:00:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aa755de4-0ef9-908c-4d5f-be44424bbb02@simark.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+MhoaO7b3=OZ5y-sMOfNhV6UJ5MD_Oa6UOMzd=Kcz+X0sPzUQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 2020-02-01 5:47 a.m., Nan Xiao wrote:
> Hi Simon,
> 
> Thanks very much for your reply!
> 
> Yes, you are correct! After checking gdb/config.h, I found all ptrace
> related macros are undefined:
> 
> /* Define if sys/ptrace.h defines the PTRACE_GETFPXREGS request. */
> /* #undef HAVE_PTRACE_GETFPXREGS */
> 
> /* Define if sys/ptrace.h defines the PTRACE_GETREGS request. */
> /* #undef HAVE_PTRACE_GETREGS */
> 
> /* Define to 1 if you have the <ptrace.h> header file. */
> /* #undef HAVE_PTRACE_H */
> 
> /* Define if sys/ptrace.h defines the PT_GETDBREGS request. */
> /* #undef HAVE_PT_GETDBREGS */
> 
> /* Define if sys/ptrace.h defines the PT_GETXMMREGS request. */
> /* #undef HAVE_PT_GETXMMREGS */
> 
> I checked the header files, there is no /usr/include/ptrace.h. There
> is /usr/include/sys/ptrace.h, but the real definitions (such as
> PT_GETREGS, PT_SETREGS, etc) are in system related header files. E.g.,
> in my OS, it is in /usr/include/amd64/ptrace.h. I checked OpenBSD's
> gdb port (gdb 7.12.1, http://openports.se/devel/gdb), it seems I need
> more tweak to make gdb work on OpenBSD, not as simple as just
> "configure" and "make".
> 
> Anyway, thanks very much again for your time and help!
> 
> Best Regards
> 
> Nan Xiao

Ok, it would be nice if GDB worked, instead of crashed, with a simple ./configure && make on
OpenBSD.  If you manage to make it work, please consider sending a patch so that other users
don't bump into this problem!

Simon


  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-03 17:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-29  5:44 Nan Xiao
2020-01-30  4:21 ` Simon Marchi
2020-02-01 10:47   ` Nan Xiao
2020-02-03 17:00     ` Simon Marchi [this message]
2020-02-04  9:20       ` Nan Xiao

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