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Re: Bug in dumper


On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:50:00PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:10:25AM +0300, Egor Duda wrote:
>>This means that either i'm wrong about my assumptions about 
>>bfd_set_arch_mach() and its return, or there's a bug in binutils. It 
>>should be quite easy to debug, though, for those who have a cygwin 
>>toolchain installed. Just build dumper with debug info (this will 
>>require building bfd alongside), start any innocent process, say, bash, 
>>get its pid and then run 'dumper -d c:/cygwin/bin/bash.exe <bash_pid>' 
>>under gdb. This should reveal what status is returned by 
>>bfd_set_arch_mach, and why.
>
>I just tried this.  The release version of dumper.exe doesn't work.
>The one I *just* built does.  Weird.
>
>I'll see if I can track down what's going on.

It's still strange.  I've rebuilt dumper and the call to
bfd-set_arch_mach goes off into random memory.  I don't see how
that can be but it's late so I'm probably missing something.

cgf


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