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Re: [rfc] Simplify ppc64_sysv_abi_adjust_breakpoint_address
- From: Luis Machado <luisgpm at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>
- To: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand at de dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:05:45 -0300
- Subject: Re: [rfc] Simplify ppc64_sysv_abi_adjust_breakpoint_address
- References: <200810091804.m99I47Zu012430@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com>
- Reply-to: luisgpm at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com
On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 20:04 +0200, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
> Luis Machado wrote:
>
> > This is a very specific case where i fetch the so called entry-point
> > from the auxv table in a 64-bit ppc binary. It shows the function
> > descriptor's address.
> >
> > 9 AT_ENTRY Entry point of program 0x100111d0
> >
> > (gdb) x/g 0x100111d0
> > 0x100111d0 <_start>: 0x000000001000053c
>
> I see. Couldn't you just use
> b _start
> and everything should work as expected?
>
> Bye,
> Ulrich
That would work OK. It's just that this was something GDB did in the
past, and it's not doing anymore. So i'm just checking if we want to
keep it this way and consider the user knows what he's doing or not.
Luis