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Re: [PATCH] remote: Avoid unwanted shlib internal BPs When debugging Linux kernel or u-boot with Abatron BDI emulator an error occurs:
Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> wrote on 2012/06/01 16:40:38:
>
> On 06/01/2012 03:38 PM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
>
> >> GDB has no special knowledge of the Linux kernel, nor of u-boot.
> >> > A GNU/Linux targeted GDB (*-*-linux-gnu) recognizes, and knows how to
> >> > debug user space applications. If the kernel binary or the u-boot binary
> >> > look very much like GNU/Linux user space programs, the *-*-linux-gnu targeted
> >> > GDB will assume that's what they are. If you used a bare metal elf/eabi
> >> > targeted GDB, which is really what those programs are, you'd not see this.
> >
>
> >
> > Yes you would, the error comes from this in solibsvr4.c:
>
> > static const char * const bkpt_names[] =
> > {
> > "_start",
> > "__start",
> > "main",
> > NULL
> > };
>
>
> No you wouldn't, because solib-svr4 is not used (or even compiled in)
> on a bare metal targeted GDB.
Ah, right you are. So this "just" hits svr4 users. Anyhow, its is a problem and
needs to be fixed(in svr4 lib I guess)
Jocke