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Re: gdb not detecting function sections correctly for functions in overlays
- From: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- To: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Arnab Bhaduri <arnab at cadence dot com>, "gdb at sourceware dot org" <gdb at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 18:32:04 +0100
- Subject: Re: gdb not detecting function sections correctly for functions in overlays
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- References: <D3CD0638AD056342925227F12D6A2AB50913A859FE at MAILSJ3 dot global dot cadence dot com> <8761t580mi dot fsf at fleche dot redhat dot com> <D3CD0638AD056342925227F12D6A2AB50913E2E289 at MAILSJ3 dot global dot cadence dot com> <8738ntgsd1 dot fsf at fleche dot redhat dot com>
On 10/22/2013 05:52 PM, Tom Tromey wrote:
>>>>>> "Arnab" == Arnab Bhaduri <arnab@cadence.com> writes:
>
> Arnab> I have made a couple of local changes that make things work better for
> Arnab> me. Perhaps you could give me your opinion on these (described below).
>
> Arnab> 1) add_location_to_breakpoint() (breakpoint.c) - this calls
> Arnab> set_breakpoint_location_function() which sets the function name
> Arnab> incorrectly because it uses the PC-to-section lookup. I modified this
> Arnab> like so:
> [...]
>
> I think a patch would be simpler to understand.
Assuming the patch is either small (10 lines or so), or we can get the
copyright assigned, which would be great. I don't see Cadence mentioned
in copyright.list though.
Otherwise, a description of the bug might actually be better, for allowing
a clean room implementation.
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Pedro Alves