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Re: Fixes for Mac OS X/x86 building/running
On 11 Mar 2009, at 20:41, Jonas Maebe wrote:
* machoread.c.patch fixes a crash caused by a missing function
pointer field (sym_read_psymbols) initializer in the middle of
macho's struct sym_fns (so the subsequent function pointer
initializers were all shifted). I've simply copied the elfread.c
implementation of read_psyms (because it appeared to be generic) and
it seems to work fine (if it's called at all). I guess this needs to
be solved in a better way though (maybe a NULL pointer would be
enough). I'm not sure why I didn't see this crash when I built gdb
last time (on January 17 from the archer-jankratochvil-vla banch),
as this field was already added on 2008-09-09 (by Tom Tromey)
according to git.
With these two patches applied, the Mac OS X build and works fine
again on i386 (at least in my cursory testing).
Less cursory testing shows that it doesn't work fine. The problem is
that the addresses for variables are read wrongly from the DWARF2
sections (code addresses are correct). I guess it's related to this
comment in machoread.c:
/* Do not try to read .eh_frame/.debug_frame as they are not
relocated
and dwarf2_build_frame_info cannot deal with unrelocated
sections. */
in combination with the new sym_read_psymbols()/read_psyms() call
(which also calls dwarf2_build_frame_info). Commenting it out
everything in the read_psyms() function I added doesn't solve it
however. Anyway, I'm afraid that's for someone else to solve...
Jonas