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From: Yao Qi <qiyaoltc@gmail.com>
To: "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [AArch64] Use int64_t for address offset
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 16:27:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH=s-PPMzesvqxau8Qp7uTjmG2VSC4zQJwFZ6f3V5YoxkSh3rg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1465979890-14353-1-git-send-email-yao.qi@linaro.org>

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 9:38 AM, Yao Qi <qiyaoltc@gmail.com> wrote:
> In AArch64 displaced stepping and fast tracepoint, GDB/GDBserver needs
> to check whether the offset can fit in the range.  We are using int32_t
> for offset, it is sufficient to get an offset from an instruction, but
> it is not enough to get an offset from two addresses.  For example,
> we have a BL in shared lib which is at 0x0000002000040774, and the
> scratch pad for displaced stepping is at 0x400698.  The offset can't
> fit in 28 bit imm.  However, since we are using int32_t for offset, GDB
> thinks the offset can fit it, and generate the B instruction with wrong
> offset.
>
> It fixes the following fail,
>
> -FAIL: gdb.base/dso2dso.exp: next over call to sub2

I pushed it in.

-- 
Yao (齐尧)

      reply	other threads:[~2016-06-28 16:27 UTC|newest]

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2016-06-15  8:38 Yao Qi
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