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Re: Next over function with Secure PLT

From: Mark Kettenis <mark dot kettenis at xs4all dot nl>
To: eager at eagerm dot com
Cc: amodra at gmail dot com, gdb at sourceware dot org, rsa at us dot ibm dot com
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 09:52:38 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Re: Next over function with Secure PLT
References: <4EE0088C.4070208@eagerm.com> <20111208040118.GB10960@bubble.grove.modra.org> <4EE06B0F.3050202@eagerm.com>

> Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 23:45:19 -0800
> From: Michael Eager <eager@eagerm.com>
> 
> > gdb ought to just pattern match the stub code to recognize when the pc
> > is in a stub.
> 
> I wanted to avoid pattern matching code because of the dependency it
> creates between code generation and debugging.  But that shouldn't
> be much of an issue or hard to implement.

This tends to be less of an issue with PLT stubs since their
instruction sequence is in many cases prescribed by the ABI.

References:
- Next over function with Secure PLT
  - From: Michael Eager
- Re: Next over function with Secure PLT
  - From: Alan Modra
- Re: Next over function with Secure PLT
  - From: Michael Eager

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