problem with fetch_link_map_offsets

Kris Warkentin kewarken@qnx.com
Tue Jun 10 12:21:00 GMT 2003


> > Yeah but....a QNX binary is just an ordinary elf binary.  There are no
> > special sections or magic in there for the sniffer to catch.  Hence my
> > problem.  Perhaps it should be returning unknown so that another sniffer
> > (like my one liner) could get it?
> >
>
> NetBSD binaries look like ordinary ELF too, as do Linux.  The only way to
> resolve this is to arange for the crt0.o file to contain some magic that
> GDB can find.  Normally this is a special .note section.
>
> Can you not arrange for QNX binaries to have such a note and then add
that.

Perhaps.  I'll have to talk to some of the folk here.  I think it would be
really handy to be able to recognize one of our binaries.  Thanks for the
suggestion.

cheers,

Kris




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