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Re: [RFC] New info command for win32 native target
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
- To: Pierre Muller <muller at cerbere dot u-strasbg dot fr>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 14:26:08 +0200 (IST)
- Subject: Re: [RFC] New info command for win32 native target
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Pierre Muller wrote:
> > - I think it's a good idea to make the format used to print the segment
> > as similar as possible to the one used by "info dos ..." commands;
>
> I didn't find any command that can display individual selector info
"info dos ldt $ds" will display the entry for DS selector's segment.
It's in the manual.
> and
> "(gdb) inf dos ldt" gives
> "LDT is present (at 0xc0000), but unreadable by GDB."
> on my win2000 box
Yes, all versions of Windows NT family don't let programs access the
descriptor tables, even for reading.
> so I can't really try to get closer to the go32 output.
> Could you please send go32 specific output?
There are examples in the GDB manual which show that, and the code is in
go32-nat.c. If the manual examples are not enough, please ask for
examples of specific commands, and I will send the output.
> > - why do you only print CS, DS, and FS if no argument is given? why not
> > all of the segment registers? I think at least SS and GS might be
> > interesting
>
> Simply because in my experience, I always saw that
> ds,es and ss are equal and that gs contains zero that is a special
> selector ment to create SIGSEGV if used.
I don't think it's a good idea to make decisions based on what you see in
a normal Windows program. Some programmer could do unconventional things
to segment registers, perhaps in assembly or some other way, and that's
when they will need to see them.