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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>,
		Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
	binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [patch] bfd: Core files with p_filesz < p_memsz (build-id)
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 00:21:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070803002103.GA19863@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070803001259.GA11213@bubble.grove.modra.org>

On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 09:43:00AM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> Oh, I see.  I was just looking at the split case.  I'd say the
> non-split behaviour is a bug.  A program header with p_filesz zero and
> p_memsz non-zero really ought to create a bfd section with size equal
> to p_memsz, without SEC_HAS_CONTENTS and SEC_LOAD.
> 
> So I think we should apply the following, and possibly on top of this
> do something special for core files.

Yes, I agree.  But keep in mind that this patch on its own is going to
lay waste to GDB's core debugging :-)  It will now disassemble all
functions as zeroes.

What we really want in GDB is now a bit complicated:
  - Prefer data from core file if within p_filesz.
  - Prefer data from executable if between p_filesz and p_memsz.
  - Show zeroes (rather than read errors) for data between p_filesz
    and p_memsz if not present in the executable.

Messy...

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-03  0:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-28 20:16 Jan Kratochvil
2007-07-29 12:30 ` Jan Kratochvil
2007-07-29 15:29 ` Roland McGrath
2007-07-29 18:32   ` Jan Kratochvil
2007-08-01 13:05     ` Alan Modra
2007-08-02 20:03       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-08-03  0:13         ` Alan Modra
2007-08-03  0:21           ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2007-08-03  2:50             ` Alan Modra
2007-08-06 19:32               ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-08-09 16:04               ` Jan Kratochvil
2007-07-30 14:07 ` [resent] " Jan Kratochvil

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