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[Bug python/19288] need a way to see if an address is covered by some existing object
- From: "tromey at sourceware dot org" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: gdb-prs at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 18:34:11 +0000
- Subject: [Bug python/19288] need a way to see if an address is covered by some existing object
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- References: <bug-19288-4717 at http dot sourceware dot org/bugzilla/>
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19288
--- Comment #16 from Tom Tromey <tromey at sourceware dot org> ---
(In reply to Pedro Alves from comment #15)
> But wouldn't it be more robust to check whether it's an address you know you
> can unwind (by consulting whatever tables the JIT uses internally), instead
> of
> checking whether the program stopped at an address you can't unwind?
For sure, but we ran into other problems when trying to do this:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1259867
(I couldn't reproduce this in the same way to debug it, instead I
got an infinite recursion in gdb -- basically doing anything in
an unwinder is extremely fiddly and difficult to get right)
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