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Re: PING: PATCH: PR backtrace/14646: [x32] backtrace doesn't work
- From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- To: Mark Kettenis <mark dot kettenis at xs4all dot nl>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 13:04:03 -0700
- Subject: Re: PING: PATCH: PR backtrace/14646: [x32] backtrace doesn't work
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On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 06:57:22 -0700
>> From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> >
>> > Perhaps the user-regs.c mechanism can be used to establish eip -> pc
>> > and esp -> sp mappings?
>>
>> It doesn't help as long as gdbarch_pc_regnum/gdbarch_sp_regnum
>> are used for both frame pc/sp value and unwind pc/sp value. For x32,
>> we want eip/esp for frame pc/sp value and rip/rsp for unwind pc/sp
>> value.
>
> That probably means we need to set gdbarch_pc_regnum (and
> gdbarch_sp_regnum) to -1 for x32.
We can't set gdbarch_pc_regnum/gdbarch_sp_regnum to -1:
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Reading symbols from
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(gdb) b main
Breakpoint 1 at 0x400c20: file sln.c, line 50.
(gdb) r
Starting program: /export/build/gnu/glibc-x32/build-x86_64-linux/elf/sln
/export/gnu/import/git/gdb/gdb/regcache.c:1062: internal-error:
regcache_read_pc: Unable to find PC
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H.J.