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Re: [RFA] solib-som.c fix for hpux
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: Randolph Chung <randolph at tausq dot org>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 15:23:15 -0500
- Subject: Re: [RFA] solib-som.c fix for hpux
- References: <442382D1.4010104@tausq.org>
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 01:25:37PM +0800, Randolph Chung wrote:
> Dan J's change to solib handling
> (http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2006-01/msg00198.html) exposed
> a probably unfounded assumption in the SOM solib code that assumes that
> the solib_create_inferior_hook will always be called before current_sos.
> As a result, gdb cvs on HPUX 32-bit would always error out when trying
> to run any executable with the message "Debugging dynamic executables
> loaded via the hpux8 dld.sl is not supported.". The most straightforward
> fix is to remove the error and handle the case where there is not yet a
> link map; that is what I have in the patch below. OTOH this does remove
> the error message if anybody does try to run gdb on hpux8 (!!!)
Grr! I tried to catch all of these. Some assume that add is called
first... others assume that create is called first...
> 2006-03-24 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>
>
> * solib-som.c (link_map_start): Don't error out if there is
> not yet a link map.
It seems OK to me, but I don't want to approve SOM changes; maybe get
Kevin's opinion, since this is a shared library topic?
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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