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Re: [patch/rfa] hppa-linux target, 2nd try


> I actually started looking at that about 10 days ago, but it is hard for
> me to figure out what is going wrong, because I don't know too well the
> machinery for calling functions inside shared libraries. And then I got
> pre-empted by something else.

ah, ok :)

the problem seems to be that gdb wants to jump directly to the malloc()
(or whatever) shared lib function, whereas normally to do a shlib call
you have to go through the import stub/plt (so that the r19/dp are
set correctly).... not sure how to do that in gdb. 

> It's something that's on my reasonably-near-future list.

cool, thanks.

randolph
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Randolph Chung
Debian GNU/Linux Developer, hppa/ia64 ports
http://www.tausq.org/


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