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Re: [PATCH v4] gdbserver: uclinux: pull in ptrace offset definitions from asm/ptrace.h

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>
To: Will Deacon <will dot deacon at arm dot com>
Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, palves at redhat dot com
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:19:29 -0400
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] gdbserver: uclinux: pull in ptrace offset definitions from asm/ptrace.h
References: <1335523886-14995-1-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com>

On Friday 27 April 2012 06:51:26 Will Deacon wrote:
> When debugging a uclinux target, it is necessary to retrieve the text
> and data offsets of the running program in order for symbol resolution
> to work correctly.
> 
> This patch pulls in definitions for PT_{TEXT,DATA,TEXT_END}_ADDR from
> the kernel's exported ptrace header, which can be issued as `magic'
> addresses to the PTRACE_PEEKUSER request in order to retrieve the child
> offsets. For those architectures currently providing their own inline
> definitions, the existing code is used as a fallback if the header
> doesn't provide any overrides.

Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
-mike

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