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Re: [patch] Fixes problem setting breakpoint in dynamic loader
- From: Kevin Buettner <kevinb at redhat dot com>
- To: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 09:10:27 -0700
- Subject: Re: [patch] Fixes problem setting breakpoint in dynamic loader
- References: <1148513171.315.104.camel@dufur.beaverton.ibm.com> <200606172021.k5HKL82O013629@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <1152143843.6282.49.camel@dufur.beaverton.ibm.com>
On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 16:57:23 -0700
PAUL GILLIAM <pgilliam@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> + /* What we're looking for here is the machine code entry point,
> + so we are only interested in symbols in code sections.
> +
> + On ABI's that use function descriptors, the linker symbol with
> + the same name as a C funtion points to that functions descriptor.
> + When those function descriptors are in the code section, they
> + contain executable code and we can set a breakpoint there. */
See my earlier post regarding this comment:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2006-06/msg00382.html
In addition to the problems that Daniel has found, there are three
other punctuation / spelling problems that I had brought to your
attention.
Kevin