[PATCH 2/2] Support the fs_base and gs_base registers on FreeBSD/amd64 native processes.

Yao Qi qiyaoltc@gmail.com
Tue Jul 11 08:09:00 GMT 2017


John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> writes:

> Use ptrace operations to fetch and store the fs_base and gs_base registers
> for FreeBSD/amd64 processes.  Note that FreeBSD does not currently store the
> value of these registers in core dumps, so these registers are only
> available when inspecting a running process.
>
> gdb/ChangeLog:
>
> 	* amd64-bsd-nat.c (amd64bsd_fetch_inferior_registers): Use
> 	PT_GETFSBASE and PT_GETGSBASE.
> 	(amd64bsd_store_inferior_registers): Use PT_SETFSBASE and
> 	PT_SETGSBASE.

The patch is good to me.

-- 
Yao (齐尧)



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