From: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
To: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
Cc: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>,
Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>,
gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] Add a dwarf unit type to represent 24 bit values.
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 16:03:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180928160345.lhshan3b7wwtviea@jocasta.intra> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a0c8e35c7d5b22cf08a302da61bcda83@polymtl.ca>
On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 01:53:35PM -0400, Simon Marchi wrote:
After a short discussion with John on IRC, what I understand is that the
debug info he is dealing with encodes the 24-bit addresses on 32-bits,
with the most significant byte equal to zero. Therefore that revised
patch looks ok to me. I would just ask you to add a comment explaining
that this "case" exists for producer XYZ on S12Z, which encodes 24 bit
addresses on 32 bits. Maybe that in the future somebody will stumble on
a producer that encodes 24 bit addresses on 24 bits. Having an
explanation for why things are the way they are will help.
When I look at the situation in more detail a number of things are
apparent:
1. The dwarf .frame_debug CFI information does indeed code these values
as 32 bits.
2. This would seem to contradict the dwarf 2.0 standard which says they are
"addressing-unit sized values".
3. objdump expects these values to be 24 bits.
4. However readelf expects them to be 32 bits.
5. Notwithstanding the above, the produced dwarf which I have, contains
lots of FDE entries, with lots of CFIs. However the contents of all
CFIs are empty. Consequently it's of little use.
Given the above, I think the best course of action is to do nothing, on
this point.
So I'll do without a dwarf unwinder until there's a producer which
actually produces something useful.
J'
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-28 16:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-29 14:18 S12Z [new patchset] John Darrington
2018-08-29 14:18 ` [PATCH 1/4] gdb: Add builtin types for 24 bit integers John Darrington
2018-09-07 22:04 ` Tom Tromey
2018-09-08 4:27 ` John Darrington
2018-09-08 5:56 ` Tom Tromey
2018-08-29 14:18 ` [PATCH 3/4] GDB: Add support for 24 bit addresses John Darrington
2018-09-07 22:04 ` Tom Tromey
2018-08-29 14:19 ` [PATCH 2/4] Add a dwarf unit type to represent 24 bit values John Darrington
2018-09-07 21:50 ` Tom Tromey
2018-09-26 17:42 ` John Darrington
2018-09-27 2:53 ` Simon Marchi
2018-09-27 5:49 ` John Darrington
2018-09-27 17:53 ` Simon Marchi
2018-09-28 16:03 ` John Darrington [this message]
2018-08-29 14:19 ` [PATCH 4/4] GDB: New target s12z John Darrington
2018-09-07 22:03 ` Tom Tromey
2018-09-08 4:46 ` John Darrington
2018-09-08 13:16 ` Tom Tromey
2018-09-08 13:21 ` John Darrington
2018-09-07 22:46 ` S12Z [new patchset] Simon Marchi
2018-09-08 4:18 ` John Darrington
2018-09-08 6:30 ` John Darrington
2018-09-08 21:37 ` Simon Marchi
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