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On Wednesday 15 May 2013 07:25:34 Luis Machado wrote: > uClibc-based targets can load their programs in an offset in memory, and > this information has historically been communicated to gdbserver via > ptrace with the following options: PT_TEXT_ADDR, PT_DATA_ADDR and > PT_TEXT_END_ADDR. well, not to be pedantic, but this is for FLAT programs, not uClibc > We have a target that uses loadmaps as opposed to the above mechanism. > It is just another ptrace request, but it doesn't use linux_read_offsets > at all. you mean FDPIC ? gdb already supports that and uses a different set of ptrace requests for that. ideally, gdb nor gdbserver should not be tied to a specific file format (what format it happened to be compiled for). instead, gdbserver should support all formats and then gdb detects the format and changes its requests based on that. -mike
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