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Re: [PATCH 24700]
On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 17:03 -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 06:56:40PM -0300, Thiago Jung Bauermann wrote:
> > In the testcase mentioned here, GDB wants to allocate memory in the
> > inferior so that it can set the string's value. It's GDB that's calling
> > malloc and not the inferior, so the inferior's PC is not anywhere near
> > malloc (unless we're lucky), as far as I know...
>
> That doesn't have anything to do with my question :-) find_pc_section
> does the PC -> section mapping pretty much the way the new code you've
> duplicated does it.
Whooops, mislead by the function name. :-)
Now I see what you mean. We'll try this alternative then.
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Thiago Jung Bauermann
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IBM Linux Technology Center